BC NDP
- Work with adjacent jurisdictions to protect shared wildlife and habitat corridors.
- Implement recommendations of the Old Growth Strategic Review to protect further old-growth stands.
- Develop a new coastal strategy.
[...] we will seek a partnership with the federal government to establish a Watershed Security Fund to fund Indigenous, local, and regionally led clean water initiatives - and create good, sustainable, local jobs for British Columbians in watershed restoration, monitoring, technology, and education.
— From Working for You.
We'll make sure owners of large industrial projects are bonded moving forward, so that they - and not BC taxpayers - pay the full cost of environmental cleanup if their projects are abandoned.
— From _Working for You_.
We will develop a new provincial coastal strategy — in partnership with First Nations and federal and local governments — to better protect coastal habitat while growing coastal economies. A priority will be working with the federal government to address freighter traffic management and anchorage through southern Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands.
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We'll work with the federal government to develop new strategies that:
- Protect and revitalize BC's salmon populations by building on the successful Broughton process and supporting innovation in fish hatcheries.
- Step up protection of fish habitat through our biodiversity strategy.
- Ensure BC processing of BC-caught fish.
— From Working for You.