Vaughn Palmer: When wildfires are out, fossil fuel development talks could flare up

VICTORIA — B.C.’s long-standing way of estimating the annual budget for fighting wildfires is “laughable,” an exasperated Premier John Horgan said Tuesday.
“Chose an arbitrary number, then put it in the books and hope for the best,” was the way Horgan described the process during a media stopover in Prince George.
The process entails averaging the cost of managing wildfires over the previous 10 years, then slotting the amount into the budget for the curre