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Three B.C. Green MLAs have been propping up the B.C. NDP minority government since the summer of 2017.

But will this continue to be the case going forward?

The B.C. Greens revealed today that Andrew Weaver will make a "significant announcement" at 9:15 a.m. on Monday (October 7).

No details have been offered in advance.

But Weaver has explicitly stated in the past that his support is contingent on the NDP cabinet addressing the climate crisis in a meaningful way.

He's also called the NDP's tax incentives to the carbon-spewing liquefied natural gas industry "a generational sellout".

The 2017 confidence and supply agreement between the NDP and B.C. Green caucuses requires the John Horgan-led government to develop a strategy to meet B.C.'s legislated greenhouse-gas reduction targets.

Under the Climate Change Accountability Act, the province must reduce provincewide carbon emissions by 40 percent in 2030 below 2007 levels.

In an interview with the Straight at this August's Vancouver Pride parade, Weaver said that the NDP government's current plan would only achieve three-quarters of the legislated target by 2030.

"The timeline [to develop a strategy] for that would be this year—to see the other 25 percent," Weaver said at the time. "So, let's see what happens there."

Weaver also added this comment: "I told John [Horgan], to his face, that I don't see how he's going to do it."

The media advisory heralding the "significant announcement" offered no indication that Weaver is considering stepping down from provincial politics or that he's in bad health.

Update

Andrew Weaver announced on Monday (October 7) that he's stepping down as leader of the B.C. Greens. For more information, go here.