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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Does Premier Clark, the great petro pretender, have a Plan B?
In January, one of the world’s most sophisticated deep-sea drilling vessels, the $540-million Chikyu, left the Japanese Port of Shimizu destined for a distant point…
June 24, 2013
Environment & Sustainability

Publications

BC Office

BC needs to better monitor water consumption
For some time, the men and women tasked with ensuring there is enough clean, safe water in Greater Victoria have understood two simple things: the…
June 13, 2013
Environment & Sustainability

BC Office

Counting Every Drop
The Case for Water Use Reporting in BC
June 11, 2013
Environment & Sustainability

News Release

BC Office

Province must get serious about tracking industrial water use and ensure that major consumers pay their fair share, new report finds
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – The BC government has a poor handle on how much water major industries are using, even though those…
June 11, 2013
Environment & Sustainability

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BC Office

It’s time to modernize BC’s Water Act
Shortly after the 2009 BC election, a commitment was made to modernize the province’s century old Water Act to meet the challenges of a new…
June 11, 2013
Energy Policy

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BC Office

Industry gets credits, schoolyards get stumps
Picture a savvy land developer who has just purchased 1,000 acres of forestland on a city’s outskirts. He plans to cut most of the trees…
February 20, 2013
Environment & Sustainability

Indigenous Rights

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BC Office

BC forest bill urgently in need of a rewrite
It wasn’t so long ago that the British Columbia government was investing lots of political capital in striking a more productive “new relationship” with First…
February 20, 2013
Energy Policy

Environment & Sustainability

BC Office

Don’t Frack the Law!
The Enbridge pipeline isn’t BC’s only major environmental threat. Find out how the provincial Natural Gas Strategy (including fracking) makes it impossible for us to…
February 6, 2013
Environment & Sustainability

Publications

BC Office

Planning a BC forest giveaway
Given the short duration of the upcoming legislative session and the provincial election to follow, a government plan to introduce a scant two-paragraph bill granting…
January 28, 2013
Environment & Sustainability

Publications

BC Office

BC MLAs take wrong approach to timber supply crisis
Ever since mid May, when a special committee of the provincial legislature was appointed to address a looming “timber supply” crisis, questions have arisen about…
August 20, 2012
Environment & Sustainability

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BC Office

Remarks to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia’s Special Committee on Timber Supply
Attachments Remarks to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia’s Special Committee on Timber Supply
July 20, 2012
Environment & Sustainability

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BC Office

BC mills are quickly running out of wood
On January 20, the town of Burns Lake received national attention when a horrific explosion and ensuing inferno at the local sawmill killed two mill…
June 27, 2012

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

Does Premier Clark, the great petro pretender, have a Plan B?

BC needs to better monitor water consumption

Counting Every Drop

Province must get serious about tracking industrial water use and ensure that major consumers pay their fair share, new report finds

It’s time to modernize BC’s Water Act

Industry gets credits, schoolyards get stumps

BC forest bill urgently in need of a rewrite

Don’t Frack the Law!

Planning a BC forest giveaway

BC MLAs take wrong approach to timber supply crisis

Remarks to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia’s Special Committee on Timber Supply

BC mills are quickly running out of wood

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