An independent review of CleanBC — the all-encompassing effort to fight climate change — that was released Wednesday warns that with all the other challenges, “government may be tempted to quietly slide climate action to the back burner.”

That is written like it hasn’t already happened.

B.C. joined Ottawa in abandoning the flagship carbon tax. It suspended electric vehicle incentives and is relaxing the targets for mass adoption of their use.

The government is all-in on LNG, which negates emission reduction. While electrification of everything everywhere has been cited as the fundamental climate policy, there are emerging concerns that B.C. doesn’t have enough power to do so.

One of the biggest frustrations heard during consultation was about the lack of clean energy supply.

But the major review of CleanBC authored by clean-energy experts Merran Smith and Dan Woynillowicz presents the sidelining of climate action as a lurking concern, rather than an obvious ongoing fact of life.

Nonetheless, their central recommendation is to continue down a road that the government veered away........

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