Why oppose responsible natural resource activities that pay for costly social programs?
The contribution of the B.C. resource sector is large enough to be the financial backbone of infrastructure projects like transit tunnels or of public-education improvements.
10 lessons from Alaska for running a sound resource economy
Is the US state’s model for resource prosperity breaking down? The state will spend $8,200 per resident this year – but takes in only $3,000 per head in revenue
Responsible development and public perception
Resource Works’s Stewart Muir joins Mike Smyth on CKNW to talk about responsible resource development
Carbon and competition: lessons from BC’s agriculture sector
Back in 2012, the BC government gave greenhouse growers a hefty carbon-tax exemption, with the justification that the tax was unfairly hurting the industry’s competitiveness. But new research suggests there was no justification for this move; the industry was doing just fine
Our growing dependency on resources
As a recent Resource Works study by Philip Cross shows, the British Columbia natural resources sector continues to be a prime employment driver for the province
High impact: the economic importance of BC’s natural resources
A 10 percent boost in BC’s natural-resource economy would mean an extra $2.137 billion in the province’s’s GDP, an extra $4.5 billion across Canada, and more than 39,000 new jobs for British Columbians. And 55 percent of those jobs would be in the Lower Mainland. All this and much more from Philip Cross, former chief economic analyst for Statistics Canada. He says that a 10 percent boost in our natural resource output is indeed realistic.