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B.C.’s provincial government provided at least $830 million in subsidies in 2017-18for the production and consumption of fossil fuels, according to a new report out of the International Institute for Sustainable Development.

The province’s subsidies are complicated and extensive, often overlooked and not always transparent, and they amount to hundreds of millions of dollars in public cash annually in support of activities that contribute to climate change, the authors of the report found.

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Vanessa Corkal, one of the authors of the study, titled Locked In and Losing Out, explained that the report took on B.C. not to single out the province, but rather to get a full sense of the types of provincial fossil fuel subsidies that exist in Canada and that effectively hold back the country’s ability to move forward on its climate goals.

“Much like in the Paris Agreement we need all countries to work together, in Canada we need all provinces and territories to work together with the federal government to deal with this issue,” Corkal said Sunday.