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Resource Economics Project (BC)
Investing causes of social and environmental insecurity in resource-dependent communities
The B.C. Office’s Resource Economics Project is a special research desk staffed by award-winning journalist and researcher Ben Parfitt. This environmental justice initiative looks into the causes of economic and social insecurity in B.C.’s resource-dependent communities. It offers policy solutions aimed at meeting the joint challenges of environmental sustainability, jobs and social justice.
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Government inaction on deepening coastal crisis demands independent forestry review
Anyone who has paid attention knows that things are wrong, horribly wrong, with what was once the dominant industry on Vancouver Island and indeed coastal…
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Taking the foot off the gas key to more stable climate and energy sector
It took intense pressure and heat over millions of years to turn buried plant and animal life into the natural gas that energy companies now…
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Regulating BC’s oil and gas industry as if the environment mattered
For several years, BC has been hooked on revenues from the fossil fuel industry. Skyrocketing royalty payments to the province from companies pulling oil and…
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Scrap subsidies to oil and gas companies and enforce tight timeline to eliminate industry’s unnecessary greenhouse gas emissions, new report urges province
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Vancouver–Efforts to cut BC’s greenhouse gas emissions will fail unless the province ends subsidies to oil and gas companies, raises…
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Foot Off the Gas
Regulating BC’s Oil and Gas Industry as if the Environment Mattered Download 643.35 KB38 pages Attachments SUMMARY: Foot Off the Gas: Regulating BC’s Oil and…
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Vicious downward spiral sees more coastal logs exported or left on ground to rot
Study reveals need for government action CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) Numerous opportunities to generate jobs from coastal forests are routinely squandered…
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Wood Waste and Log Exports on the BC Coast
Download 451.28 KB6 pages
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Over-cutting and Waste in BC’s Interior
A Call to Rethink BC’s Pine Beetle Logging Strategy Download 747.47 KB36 pages
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Trees and Jobs Wasted in Rush to Beat Beetle, Study Warns
Jointly issued by: BC Federation of Labour; BC Government and Service Employees’ Union; Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives BC Office; Communications Energy & Paperworkers Union…
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A tree too far
Cookie-cutter responses to big problems have a way ofbackfiring, with the cure often proving worse than the disease. Theresponse to the mountain pine beetle attack…
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Securing a Sustainable Future for BC’s Forest Communities
Speech to the Stand Up for the North Conference Download 204.26 KB10 pages Excerpt: “Before talking a bit about where the opportunities lie to strengthen…
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First Nations forestry accords are not creating a partnership of equals
Six years ago, anyone who said that the provincial Liberals would try to forge a “new relationship” with First Nations would have been laughed out…
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