{
  "id": 1717235,
  "title": "Opinion: B.C.'s wildfires and fossil fuels: We need to connect the dots",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/opinion-b-c-s-wildfires-and-fossil-fuels-we-need-to-connect-the-dots",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-18T13:00:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Vancouver Sun",
    "slug": "vancouver-sun",
    "url": "https://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/opinion-bc-wildfires-and-fossil-fuels-we-need-to-connect-the-dots"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Tracey Saxby: Wildfire impacts are one example of the public costs of climate change, yet there is no provincial acknowledgment that these costs are exacerbated by domestic fossil fuel production — or that they put a significant dent into royalty revenues",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}