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Tyee Poll: Do You Avoid Fossil Fuels In Your Investments?

As laid out in a recent Tyee story, the 68,000-member BC Government and Service Employees' Union was able to create a Canadian equity investment fund without any oil, gas or pipeline holdings.

The reason was economic. Fearing that oil prices would plunge, the union pulled $20 million from Canadian equities one day in 2014.

There's also the case for divesting on ethical grounds. Activists have been pushing universities, government pension plans, churches and corporations to shed investments in the oil and gas sector.

On the flip side, there are those who believe there are other solutions to tempering climate change rather than simply divesting, or advocating from the inside as shareholders for companies to change their practices. David P. Ball reported on some solutions in a recent Tyee story.

Then there's the case of the pension plans. The B.C. Municipal Pension Plan lost $505 million from the oil price crash as 10 per cent of its assets are in the fossil fuel sector. The B.C. Public Service Pension Plan lost about $310 million, with about 11 per cent in fossil fuels.

So, we were wondering...

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