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Messages to Biden on cross-border energy
Can Biden be persuaded to keep Keystone XL? Canadian industry and government urge energy cooperation.
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West Coast First Nations strike agreement to protect sacred cultural cedars
Nanwakolas Council and forestry companies make groundbreaking agreement to ensure monumental trees are protected within traditional territories.
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Innovation for a turbulent year
From battling misinformation during the Wet’suwet’en crisis to launching the Resource Innovation Forum, Resource Works proved itself a critical advocate for Canada’s resource sectors. We look back on 2020, a year of adapting to meet new challenges and emerging opportunities.
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Yes, we do need those pipelines
Canada Energy Regulator: The TMX pipeline will help Canada meet global demand for crude oil, despite misinformation campaign.
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Island communities left behind as 19 fish-farms shut down
"Scientists have spoken but the government prefers to listen to activists and not to the people who live and work here,” says Port Hardy Mayor Dennis Dugas. Phasing out open-net salmon farming would mean more costs on industry, less benefit to communities.
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When it comes to the new carbon tax, sustainability is a double edged sword
As the federal government drives towards its Paris Agreement goals, concerns abound regarding economic sustainability.
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Innovative start-ups cap 6-week series on energy and sustainability
Sustainably reaching climate targets requires meeting the double bottom line—reducing GHGs while boosting commercial viability. Hydrogen experts Marty Reed and Chris Reid say that the road to green energy is blue.
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Time to "turn the page" on opposing Trans Mountain pipeline, says B.C. cabinet minister Murray Rankin
Though he long had "difficulty" with the venture, British Columbia's new Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation Minister now acknowledges the project deemed to be in the national interest has its approvals and is going forward.
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Yes, Virginia, Trans Mountain does have a business case
Critics of the pipeline project are outdoing themselves to seed doubt and confusion. In spite of this, those who care about Canadian economic-environmental balance needn't worry: TMX will be productive, profitable and climate-friendly for many decades. Stewart Muir explains why.
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How B.C. mayors are taking action to heal the urban-rural divide
Local leaders are the ones closest to public anxieties – they live it every day. In the pandemic response, these are the voices coming to the fore in support of doing the right thing.
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Digging deeper into deep-well credits
Even when the market price of natural gas is low, natural-gas developers pay millions of dollars of royalties to the BC government each month.
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4 BC resource files to watch as cabinet is announced
The quality of the Premier’s Cabinet lineup will determine whether the government’s agenda on these issues will land right – for their future electoral odds and for our province’s economy.
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$493 billion in oil and gas revenues to governments since 2000: More than the construction and real estate sectors combined
According to recent findings by the Canadian Energy Centre, revenue generated from oil and gas eclipsed the federal government's contribution to family allowance and children’s benefits since 1970. The CEC's Mark Milke and Lennie Kaplan weigh in.
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Another day, another flawed CCPA report, this time about the Trans Mountain Expansion Project
A Chemist in Langley, Blair King, recently wrote about yet another flawed publication by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). We've reprinted his expert review of the dodgy analysis in that report.
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Collaborative innovation in Canada's oil sands
WATCH: Our second instalment of the Resource Innovation Forum featured Wes Jickling, Chief Executive of Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA), for a discussion on the collaboration that advances the environmental performance of Canada's major oil sands producers.
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Institutional partnerships and perspectives on oil sands innovation
WATCH: On Thursday, October 28th, we were joined by University of Calgary Chancellor Deborah Yedlin and RBC Senior Vice-President John Stackhouse for a discussion with moderator Stewart Muir on how institutional partnerships can advance innovation in Canada's oil sands.
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Big questions about net-zero
We’re still awaiting the rules and regulations that the federal government is drafting to execute its plan to achieve net-zero emissions in Canada by 2050. Industries and resource projects from coast to coast to coast know they will be compelled by 2050 to eliminate or offset greenhouse-gas emissions, but how?
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Count on Canada for critical minerals
As the world becomes more and more digital, and manufacturing becomes greener, there will be increasing demand for critical metals, minerals and rare earths. And Canada can play a key role in supplying them.
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BC mining in deep carbon pricing trouble
BC's mining industry contributes $7.4 billion to BC’s economy (GDP). It spends $3 billion to purchase goods and services from 3,700 small, medium and Indigenous businesses in 215 BC communities. And it spends $330 million on exploration.
So how is this critical industry coping with the carbon price? And why do governments seem set on making it more difficult and expensive for our mines to operate, and more difficult to compete in world markets?
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