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12 keys to understanding British Columbia’s high-tech resource economy

Greener and more efficient use of our precious natural resources can only come from harnessing technology. Here are some ways this is already unfolding around us today.

Sources:

  1. See data tables for Profile of the British Columbia High Technology Sector — 2014 Edition (released June 2015)Table B8^ accompanying “Input Indicators”
  2. Natural Resources Canada
  3. Natural Resources Canada
  4. www.mdacorporation.com
  5. Natural Resources Canada
  6. Energy XXI
  7. Squamish Lillooet Regional District
  8. Profile of the British Columbia High Technology Sector: 2014 Edition (831kB) 
  9. Ipsos Reid survey for Resource Works, April 2014.
  10. Financial and Economic Review, BC Ministry of Finance
  11. http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/03/mining-your-iphone-recycling-iphones-yields-gold-silver-platinum-and-more-infographic/
  12. http://www.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/introduction.html

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