BC Greens

☀️ Gas prices / geopolitics got you down? ☀️ Sing/bike it out with us - Sunday, May 17th for BIKE KARAOKE!! 🏛️ Meet at the Legislature lawn at 3pm to join the ride, or after at Banfield park in Esquimalt for sun & swim ⛱️ 🚲 Bring your bike (and helmet!) + your best karaoke song, we’ll have lyrics on a special bike-attached-screen for ya 🎤 We’re biking to get our feelings out ((and to raise money to fight oil & gas Oligarchs))💸 Did you know: That in 2024, oil companies had at least 1135 meetings with the federal government? That’s more than four times per working day! Donate to the BC Greens // become a member today, and see you then! 😉 (Link in bio)

We (tried to) ask Billionares in their Vancouver mansions - what’s an oligarch? 🤔💰 #billionares #oligarchs #fighttheoligarchs #wealthtax #bcgreens #bcpoli

**Beep Beep** We’re on tour!! 🚗 This month, we’re travelling across the province, meeting with communities building bright solutions to reclaim BC’s economy for working people, not the billionaires. From food security, cooperative housing, community owned energy and innovative technology, come with us and discover how to fight the oligarchs, right here in BC. Fighttheoligarchs.ca ⚡ #fighttheoligarchs #bcgreens #britishcolumbia #billionares #wealthtax #greenparty #emilylowan #bcpoli

Great to meet & scheme with a small group of dedicated youth in the Cowichan Valley! Sorry to all the 30-somethings who thought you couldn’t come to the youth meet-up… Next round will be Youth+! See you @ Cowichan Pride next month 🌈 #cowichanvalley

As long as our governments are captured by fossil fuel corporations, we will continue to foreclose our future to prop up their failing bottom line. We’re not out-numbered, we’re out-organized. Help us build the resistance to Smith’s oil pipeline and fight for the green solutions we need: https://bcgreens.ca/volunteer/

Another report from @sherepunjabradiocanada on our AI Data Centre moratorium. Working people take shorter showers and let their plants die, just to see data centres hoard the water we’re trying to save. This government’s “build first, regulate later” model serves corporate interests over people and planet. #ai #datacentres #bcpoli

Today’s reporting by the Times Colonist on our call for a moratorium on building AI data centres in BC, until the environmental, health, and data risks of these facilities are understood and regulated.

Emily Lowan Supports Opposition to Nanaimo Data Centre, Continues Calls for Moratorium at Press Conference Snuneymuxw TERRITORY / NANAIMO, B.C. — BC Green Party Leader Emily Lowan called for an AI data centre moratorium until the province steps in with real regulations during a press conference in Nanaimo, BC. She was joined by local residents concerned about an announced Nanaimo data centre, Hilary Eastmure and Paul Manly — city councillors who voted against rezoning the proposed site — and advocate Kathryn Barnwell. Residents of Nanaimo have expressed concerns about the newly approved data centre’s water usage and the security of their local watershed. “Cities are operating without a safety net. With no provincial or federal action, local governments are forced to regulate data centres themselves,” said Lowan. “They simply do not have sufficient resources or power to do so effectively.” Eastmure, Manly, and Barnwell spoke to frustrations over the province’s hesitancy to regulate data centres, arguing that it is not viable for local governments to provide the necessary regulatory framework. Left with few options, the City of Nanaimo has said they will charge this data centre $60,000 when it consumes beyond its water limits. “The problem with that,” Lowan stated, “is charging a big corporation a minor fee is like giving a parking ticket to a billionaire. It’s just the cost of doing business.” “I am calling for a moratorium on AI data centres until the risks of these facilities are understood and regulated to protect local communities,” Lowan concluded. “I am urging our government to put people over profit.” In the United States, 50 jurisdictions have issued moratoriums on data centres, with more legislation on the way. Similar actions have been taken by Irish and Dutch governments.

The VCBC is a life-saving service in our community. If you believe that chronically ill and low income people deserve access to the medication that works for them - call Nina Krieger (250-356-2178) and tell her: Hands off the VCBC. #compassionclub #victoriabc

Thrilled to meet up with labour leader and enemy to billionaires, Chris Smalls. Keep an eye out for our interview coming soon 👀 @chris.smalls_

Recent polling in Cowichan Valley looks great for the BC Greens – but the only way to secure a win is with youth organizers leading the charge and bringing their vision to life. ⚡️ Meet our leader Emily Lowan and chat about the issues that matter to you, ways we can organize together and build youth-led momentum in the Cowichan Valley! #bcgreens #cowichanvalley

A housing crisis. An affordability crisis. A climate crisis. Instead of building affordable homes, bringing down the costs of groceries, or securing our fresh water as droughts get worse — our government is celebrating a handout to TELUS to build AI data centres in the heart of Vancouver. Data sovereignty is important, but handouts for big AI and TELUS aren’t how we get there. They just lost a petabyte of user data. Their health app stole information from working families just looking for a doctor. I talked about more issues with this build-first regulate-later model on CBC (see images). I’m travelling to Nanaimo to meet with community members who have been on the frontlines of the battle between the security of our water and the greed of big tech. Help me and the BC Greens keep up the fight against corporate exploitation.