In the two and one half years since that review began, we have evidence of its results.
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Northern Insight: Charting BC natural gas revenues
The following charts are created with production data from Statistics Canada (CANSIM 131-0001) and other reports from government ministries. These demonstrate significant changes of income from exploration and production of British Columbia’s oil and gas. I will add commentary in subsequent posts but I invite readers to examine these graphs.
Continue readingNorthern Insight: John Horgan on resource revenues
This is from Ian Jessop’s CFAX1070 program, May 9, about 1:45pm Gadget Google – Lecteur multimédia de Google – http://www.liens-du-vin.ch/google-audio_player-script.htm
Continue readingNorthern Insight: On resources with Ian Jessop, Apr 17
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Continue readingNorthern Insight: When special interests buy a government
Before BC Liberals were first elected in 2001, they promised natural resource producers to materially cut the public share of values extracted. They kept their promise and producers filled party coffers in return. There is a fiction in Canada that no connection exists between political contributions and government actions. I
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Short term gain for long term pain
250news.com, December 2013 “While one Canfor mill shuts down, another opens up, in China.” Business in Vancouver, January, 2014: “The constant flow of B.C. logs to overseas sawmills is hurting local custom cutters and lumber remanufacturers who rely on the fibre. They are finding it hard to source what keeps
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