B.C.’s Economic Future Is Bigger Than Oil and Gas

British Columbia Canada — Economic Future
 Is Bigger Than Oil and Gas

British Columbia's, Canada -  Economic Future Is -  Bigger Than Oil and Gas

B.C.’s Other Resource Economy Is Already Here

The jobs beneath our streets and along our coast may be one of the biggest economic opportunities we are overlooking

For most British Columbians, a big economic project is easy to recognize.

A new mine is announced and we hear how many billions of dollars will be invested. An LNG project gets approved and we hear about thousands of construction jobs. A pipeline is expanded and governments talk about exports, workers and economic growth.

Those jobs are real, and they matter. British Columbia needs miners, welders, mechanics, electricians, engineers, truck drivers, equipment operators and the industries that employ them.

But there is another resource economy already operating around us that receives remarkably little attention when we talk about B.C.’s economic future.

It is the ocean.