Natural Resources committee  I'll jump in there.

Natural Resources committee  As far as the plans are concerned, in a lot of cases when you're talking environment the energy industry is a leader in environment. The energy industry has created many technological advancements that have aided the environment in all other aspects, besides the oil and gas indus

Natural Resources committee  The main thing there is that there would be more involvement in local employment if their personnel were located in the communities rather than having the fly-in/fly-out situation. There also would be if they came to a community and were part of the community rather than operatin

Natural Resources committee  In Canada as a whole and the western part of Canada and the “have” provinces, we have a commodity, a product, that needs a market. I think when we start to look at our markets, we should be as diversified in our markets as we can be. We've already seen what happens when we have o

Natural Resources committee  We do have a small number of temporary foreign workers here. Again, to what Dave was just saying, most of them are in the retail service sector end of it. Some of them have started to progress into the oil and gas sector, but at this point it's very minimal.

Natural Resources committee  Well, between British Columbia and Alberta, it is energy.

Natural Resources committee  We have, as a municipality, already done a study regarding taking the population from 6,800 up to 15,000. We have done engineering on water supply, sewer supply, roads, access, power to be supplied, and the complete subdivision developments in terms of proper zoning. We have also

Natural Resources committee  Yes, there is. Just for clarification, it's not compressed natural gas. It's liquefied natural gas to be liquefied in the community and transported by road to Yukon. The use of liquefied natural gas compared to compressed natural gas is way more efficient and more economical to t

Natural Resources committee  Well, I could name two of them right off the bat, and those are Alberta and British Columbia. And then there are Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

Natural Resources committee  Going by that, one thing about the oil industry that we do need here in B.C.—and it is being looked at—is, of course, the access to markets. Hopefully in the near future we will see access to markets. I know that the federal government is working a lot on it. Going by the amount

Natural Resources committee  The benefit of that is paid to the government, which does go into general revenue. The revenue is not necessarily paid back according to where it comes from. The resource of the natural gas and oil in British Columbia, of course, is owned by the citizens of the province. We do co

Natural Resources committee  Yes, that would be correct.

Natural Resources committee  Again, the benefits of it are equalization payments, payments made for the use of the land on this, and a lot of the money goes directly to the first nations for their benefit, which they use on their local reserves.

Natural Resources committee  The average person involved in the oil and gas industry in northeastern B.C. quite commonly has an income in excess of $100,000 a year. I'm going to a personal aspect on this. I am the father of three children and the grandfather of seven. Before the advent of LNG, our family li

Natural Resources committee  I can't count that. We have, through the Northern Rockies, we cover 10% of the province of British Columbia. We are a regional municipality, the very first in British Columbia. We have thousands of miles of pipelines. My residence is located no more than approximately four kilo