Resource Economics Project

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.

Environment or jobs is a false dichotomy

Big dams and big fracking problems
The case for water use reporting
The case for a carbon focus and green jobs in B.C.’s forest industry

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Infographics: A big fracking problem in BC’s Peace River Region
Click to enlarge (files open in a new window). Read the news release here.
August 17, 2016
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Big dams and a big fracking problem in BC’s energy-rich Peace River Region
Download 293.5 KB12 pages This short paper describes senior BC Hydro officials’ fears that earthquakes triggered by natural gas industry fracking operations could damage Peace…
August 17, 2016
Energy Policy

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Fracking has no place near critical dams or reservoirs
Last year, a dubious record was set when a magnitude 4.6 earthquake was triggered near Fort St. John during a natural gas industry fracking operation.…
August 17, 2016
News Release

BC Office

Province must ban fracking near all of BC Hydro’s Peace River dams and reservoirs, groups say
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – Natural gas company fracking operations should be banned near all hydro dams out of concerns that earthquakes triggered…
August 16, 2016
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Rising hydro bills pushing mills to burn fossil fuel
Premier Christy Clark’s vow to push work at the $9-billion Site C dam “past the point of no return” may be music to the ears…
March 22, 2016
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Site C: Too risky to rely on one river system for BC’s hydro needs
In the face of a prolonged drought, water levels at Lake Mead, the giant hydroelectric reservoir that straddles the Nevada and Arizona borders, are lower…
January 27, 2016
Energy Policy

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The real reason the BC government is spending $9 billion on Site C
From a lookout high atop a windswept bluff, the scale of work already underway at Site C is daunting. Large tracts of boreal forest logged.…
December 21, 2015
Environment & Sustainability

Indigenous Rights

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Communities impacted by resource development are fighting back: government should take notice
Whether it’s mining, logging, dams or pipelines, the people living closest to resource industry developments typically face the highest health, economic and environmental risks. Such…
October 6, 2015
Environment & Sustainability

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BC Office

BC government should heed the call to consult on forestry changes
British Columbia’s forests represent the single-largest renewable asset that we have, a public resource shared with First Nations across the province. Whatever the fate may…
December 19, 2013
Environment & Sustainability

Indigenous Rights

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BC Office

A windfall for BC’s five biggest forest companies?
Shortly before the May election, the provincial government withdrew legislation that could have handed de facto control of publicly owned forestlands to a handful of…
October 21, 2013
Environment & Sustainability

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BC Office

Return to old-school forest practices to protect BC grizzlies
More than 20 years ago, British Columbia signalled to the world that sustainable development was a concept it took seriously. In the intervening years, the…
October 9, 2013
Environment & Sustainability

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Water withdrawal stats run dry
Nestlé will voluntary disclose such vital information, but BC government doesn’t seem interested in asking Here’s a question that our provincial government ought to be…
August 7, 2013

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Investing causes of social and environmental insecurity in resource-dependent communities

Infographics: A big fracking problem in BC’s Peace River Region

Big dams and a big fracking problem in BC’s energy-rich Peace River Region

Fracking has no place near critical dams or reservoirs

Province must ban fracking near all of BC Hydro’s Peace River dams and reservoirs, groups say

Rising hydro bills pushing mills to burn fossil fuel

Site C: Too risky to rely on one river system for BC’s hydro needs

The real reason the BC government is spending $9 billion on Site C

Communities impacted by resource development are fighting back: government should take notice

BC government should heed the call to consult on forestry changes

A windfall for BC’s five biggest forest companies?

Return to old-school forest practices to protect BC grizzlies

Water withdrawal stats run dry

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