B.C.'s wildfires and fossil fuels: We need to connect the dots

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B.C.'s wildfires and fossil fuels: We need to connect the dots

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Opinion: B.C.'s wildfires and fossil fuels: We need to connect the dots

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Wildfire is a public cost of climate change yet there's no provincial acknowledgment they're exacerbated by domestic fossil fuel production

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