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BY KRIS SIMS

Let’s hope the bean counters at Victoria City Hall understand some cheques just aren’t coming.

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Victoria’s mayor, on the other hand, may be losing perspective. She seems to think some of the poorest people in the world owe her city money.

British Columbia’s capital city is sending letters demanding “climate adaptation compensation” from oil producers such as Chevron and Shell, but the letters are also going to government-owned oil companies in China, Iraq and Venezuela.

Entitled “Victoria’s Climate Accountability Letters,” and signed by Mayor Lisa Helps, they’re posted on a webpage with a photo of cyclists pedalling along a sunlit street with transit buses, leafy trees and street lamps.

The webpage says: “(T)he City of Victoria joined other cities in British Columbia to write to fossil fuel producers around the world to ask them to contribute a tiny fraction of their profits to offset the costs our residents our residents [sic] will have to bear.”