BCF. Three letters that carry more weight than most people realize.
In the energy industry, BCF means billion cubic feet — the standard unit for measuring natural gas, a commodity that heats homes, powers industry and underpins the provincial economy. In the broader conversation about where British Columbia is headed, BCF means something else entirely: British Columbia’s Future.
That double meaning is no accident. It’s an argument.
The foundation of affordability and reliability
Natural gas is essential to affordability and housing, to grid reliability as we build out electrification, to the jobs that sustain communities across the province, and to the competitiveness that determines whether investment flows here or elsewhere. Strip it from the picture and you don’t get a cleaner BC — you get a less prosperous one, with fewer tools to manage the transition ahead.
Resource Works has long believed that policymakers and Indigenous leaders deserve reliable, non-ideological information when they make consequential decisions about energy. That’s not a radical position. It’s the minimum standard for good governance.
Evidence over ideology
The BCF concept captures something important: that the choices BC makes about natural gas aren’t just technical or environmental questions. They are questions about the province’s future — who benefits, who bears costs, and whether the decisions being made reflect evidence or ideology.
We’ll be returning to this theme throughout the year. The conversation is overdue.
Stewart Muir is president and CEO of Resource Works Society. Reach him via [email protected].
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