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VICTORIA — With little to lose and much to gain in the coming election, the leader and lone MLA of the B.C. Green party, Andrew Weaver, laid out a climate action plan Thursday that boldly contrasted with both major parties.

Weaver would more than double the carbon tax over the next five years and put the province on track for a 40 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

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In followup questions with reporters, he also said a Green government would do everything in its power to axe several multi-billion-dollar energy and fossil fuel projects in B.C.

Gone would be the hydroelectric dam already under construction at Site C on the Peace River. Weaver some years ago supported the B.C. Hydro project. Today, he says Site C is overpriced and not needed.

Unlike the New Democrats, who’ve promised only to submit Site C for review by the B.C. Utilities Commission, Weaver promised Thursday to kill it outright without reservation.