A growing campaign that has municipalities in British Columbia taking aim against the oil industry has Calgary city councillors seeing red, but the law firm behind the initiative says Alberta isn't being singled out.
The campaign made headlines when Whistler, B.C., issued a letter last year to 20 international energy companies asking them to “pay a fair share” of the costs of climate change. But the issue came up again last month when councillors in Victoria, B.C., voted to begin tracking climate change-related costs and ask the Union of BC Municipalities to explore legal action against international oil companies.
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