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Reports and research

Discover in-depth reports and research from Canada’s natural resource sector. Our research page features comprehensive studies, data-driven insights, and expert analysis that help explain the trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the industry—informing decisions for policymakers, businesses, and communities.

Paradigm Shift: Imagining the forestry future of North Cowichan

Here's a presentation that Resource Works founder, Stewart Muir, made to the District of North Cowichan in Summer 2021 as the district undergoes an overhaul of its forestry strategy.
  • Forestry

Old Growth Forests in British Columbia: A citizen’s guide

As anarchists, actors and pressure groups descend on the B.C. Coast to create a high-emotion summer drama they hope will affect our laws and way of life, let's pause for a moment to think and
  • Forestry, Reconciliation

Forestry in BC: Setting the record straight

Are BC's forests in a state of crisis? This new Resource Works report responds to the rhetoric coming out of Fairy Creek and anti-logging activists.
  • Forestry, Reconciliation

Safe Passage: A major new report from Resource Works

Study looks at Trans Mountain oil tanker safety perspectives from maritime experts who live on British Columbia’s South Coast.
  • Manufacturing, Oil & Gas

REPORT: Measuring the impact of natural resources on PNWER economies

Statistical data and information is essential for making informed decisions about natural resources. Here's our take on how some provinces, territories, and states in the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region are treating the issue - and
  • Resources

The confusion around natural resources in Canada

ESSAY: Who wants to start a process and commit money to developing a project under circumstances of prevailing uncertainty and confusion in law and practice? In this sweeping essay, longtime political affairs columnist Jeffrey Simpson
  • Mining, Oil & Gas

POLICY NOTE: A closer look at Bill C-48, the proposed ban on shipping oil along British Columbia’s north coast

After careful consideration, we've found that Bill C-48 comes up short in striking a balance between environmental and economic interests.
  • Mining, Oil & Gas

The path to Canadian Energy 2.0

POLICY NOTE: The business of energy is facing a crisis of perception around the world, causing energy exporters to become increasingly strategic in how they approach climate risk, economic growth, and politics. Canada is going
  • Forestry, Manufacturing, Mining, Nuclear, Oil & Gas

Citizen’s Guide: Economic impacts of Trans Mountain pipeline expansion

In our ongoing Citizen's Guide series, Resource Works tackles the question of what economic benefits will flow from completion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion project. This document was independently prepared by veteran journalists Stewart
  • Mining, Oil & Gas

Fortifying Canada’s relationship with our natural resources.

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Where Energy Meets Reality

Is Canada Wasting Its Energy Advantage? | Doomberg on Oil, LNG, and the Pipeline Future

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