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Spinning our wheels: Why carbon emissions are going in the wrong direction
Over 80% of Canadians, and an even greater percentage of British Columbians indicate that they are concerned or very concerned about climate change. Kim Lonsdale looks into how is this translating into how we get around.
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Can you guess the seven fields leading B.C.'s green diversification?
Extracting added value from commodities like minerals, energy, paper and lumber is the most realistic option we have to create more high-tech jobs in an era when over 70 per cent of global trade is in intermediate goods and services and capital goods.
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Helios Wire: Satellite technology levels the data playing field
Greener and more efficient use of our precious natural resources can only come from harnessing technology. In the Naturally Resourceful series, Resource Works writer Don Hauka looks at the British Columbia companies that are on the leading edge of this transformation. Eighth in the series.
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RESOURCES PRIMER: Five proof points showing how primary industries drive the economy
The world is just as dependent as ever on basic materials that need to be responsibly sourced from somewhere. This can be challenging to understand for those who've heard the arguments that Canada is a post-resource economy. This material can help.
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How natural resources are spinning high-tech and clean-tech jobs
British Columbia's highest productivity, highest paying jobs are in natural resources. But did you know resources are creating a stunning level of high-tech and clean tech jobs? Meet some of the companies driving this renaissance.
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At the nexus of high tech and natural resources
To mark the British Columbia Tech Summit, Resource Works looked at how foundational industries are at the leading edge of innovation. You'll be amazed at what we discovered.
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What can be learned from the disappointment of losing one major project?
Industry and government are paying the price for being tone deaf and numb to their obligations to First Nations and communities. Regulatory burden and uncertainty is another. Layer on top of that regulatory uncertainty and a lack of a real and clear commitment by governments, and it's clear Canada is in trouble. 
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International energy guru's message for Canada
Canada has natural advantages in its oil and gas industry that the country would be wise to consider as it plans its energy future. The head of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, took time out from a recent visit to Winnipeg to explain what those are.
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Building a resilient nation will take courage
Every woman, man and child in Canada benefits from the oil industry through the billions it pays in royalties, corporate taxes and other levies. According to Jamie Carroll, that includes the women, men and children living in British Columbia and Quebec.
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Getting from high-energy to low-carbon lifestyles
In our haste for energy perfection, we are overlooking the more important need to sustain, over the long term, supplies of energy sufficient to let us maintain our standard of living. Stewart Muir looks at what we can do about this emerging crisis.
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Bet you won't guess the most powerful step available to address climate change
Electric vehicles? Solar panels? Wind turbines? None of the above. Educating girls and family planning in combination offer the greatest single opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Proving big things can come in small packages
Greener and more efficient use of our precious natural resources can only come from harnessing technology. In the Naturally Resourceful series, Resource Works writer Don Hauka looks at the British Columbia companies that are on the leading edge of this transformation. Seventh in the series.
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A frontline dispatch from the war on responsible resource development
Sobering thoughts from a retired energy regulator who has won accolades from all sides through contentious processes.
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A new series celebrates progress through natural resources
Our new daily infographic from adventurer-scientist Tony Morley appears in social media with the hashtag #ResourceProgress.
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Two perspectives on carbon pricing, future fuels and prosperity
Global demand for crude oil and natural gas is not credibly forecast to diminish over most of this century, but there is increasing pressure to change our energy systems. Some leading-edge thinkers examine the thorny issues that result.
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What's in the national interest? Let's start with prosperity, freedom and equality
A court challenge paid for by British Columbia taxpayers claims that building safe energy infrastructure is not in the national interest. Could this be true?
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Resource Works adds its voice to Generation Energy
Winnipeg conference aims to shape Canada’s long-term energy future.
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Our growth potential is wasting away as resource project inertia continues
"We continue to drag our feet about pipelines, we manage to discourage liquefied natural gas investments in BC..."
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