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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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CCPA-BC Presentation to the Scientific Hydraulic Fracturing Review Panel
Download 1.47 MB 10 pages At the end of June 2018, CCPA-BC Resource Policy Analyst Ben Parfitt was asked to make a presentation to the…
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British Columbians shortchanged billions from fossil fuel industry revenues
Earlier this year, Premier John Horgan announced that the British Columbia government was prepared to offer billions of dollars in tax breaks to Royal Dutch…
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Fossil fuel companies broke numerous rules intended to protect threatened caribou, suppressed report shows
VANCOUVER – BC’s Oil and Gas Commission sat on a damaging audit for nearly four years that showed companies that drill and frack for natural…
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Suppressed report shows hundreds of BC’s fracked gas wells may leak methane, underscores need for public inquiry
VANCOUVER—BC’s Oil and Gas Commission withheld a report from the public for four years showing that 900 gas wells could be leaking methane—a finding that…
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Newly disclosed data shows need for inquiry into fracking
In May 2014, British Columbia’s then Minister of Natural Gas Development, Rich Coleman, came out swinging when a team of Canadian and American scientists issued…
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The urgent need for a full Public Inquiry into fracking in BC
Group letter to John Horgan and Michelle Mungall Honourable John Horgan, BC Premier, and Honourable Michelle Mungall, BC Minister for Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources…
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Public inquiry needed to properly investigate deep social and environmental harms of fracking, coalition says
VANCOUVER—A promised “review” of natural gas industry fracking operations should be broadened to a full Public Inquiry that examines all aspects of the dangerous gas…
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Petronas subsidiary failed to get regulatory approval before building at least 16 large dams in BC to trap freshwater for fracking operations, CCPA investigation reveals
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – A subsidiary of Malaysian state-owned Petronas, the company behind a massive Liquefied Natural Gas plant proposal near Prince…
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Province needs to focus on value-added forestry rather than LNG pipedream
With the BC government’s promise of tens of thousands of jobs in a new liquefied natural gas industry in tatters, the province’s long-neglected forest industry…
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It’s time for the BC government to curb raw log exports and boost value-added forestry jobs, say unions and environmental groups
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) Between 2013 and 2016, more raw logs were shipped from BC than during any other four-year period…
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The Great Log Export Drain
Download 128.35 KB9 pages This short two-part report shows that between 2013 and 2016, more raw logs were shipped from BC than during any other…
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