By Patrick Penner, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Tri-Cities Dispatch Pricey civic-building retrofits are sowing doubt in some Port Moody councillors as to whether the city can realistically reach its climate goals. During budget deliberations on Dec. 2, council voted unanimously to remove a major greenhouse-gas-reduction project from the 2026 capital plan, despite staff warning the project was needed to hit the city\u2019s ambitious target of reducing civic building emissions by 80 percent by 2030. Council largely agreed the Climate Action Plan (CAP) needs to be revisited. \u201cAll other levels of government are reevaluating their targets \u2013 the federal government, the provincial government \u2013 and I believe that we should be doing the same,\u201d said Coun. Kyla Knowles. \u00a0\u201cWe\u2019ve done this to ourselves as a council, we\u2019ve given ourselves these targets… <\/p>\n
By Patrick Penner, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Tri-Cities Dispatch Pricey civic-building retrofits are sowing doubt in some Port Moody councillors as to whether the city can realistically reach its climate goals. During budget deliberations on Dec. 2, council voted unanimously to remove a major greenhouse-gas-reduction project from the 2026 capital plan, despite staff warning the project was needed to hit the city\u2019s ambitious target of reducing civic building emissions by 80 percent by 2030. Council largely agreed the Climate Action Plan (CAP) needs to be revisited. \u201cAll other levels of government are reevaluating their targets \u2013 the federal government, the provincial government \u2013 and I believe that we should be doing the same,\u201d said Coun. Kyla Knowles. \u00a0\u201cWe\u2019ve done this to ourselves as a council, we\u2019ve given ourselves these targets... <\/p>\n