What a difference one year makes.
A year ago, Vancouver city Coun. Rebecca Bligh rejected the idea of a lawsuit against global fossil fuel companies for climate damages, saying, “We are not in a position to spend public money on individual lawsuits, whatever the topic.” It was a view endorsed by her fellow ABC Vancouver councillors.
But now the City of Vancouver is suing three companies that it says did shoddy repairs on the Granville Street Bridge, trying to recover some of the funds that are needed to fix the resulting “dangerous conditions.”
Let’s be clear – if shoddy repairs are costing the city a lot of money and potentially putting
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