On April 19, BC Premier Gordon Campbell announced that the Peace River ‘Site C’ Hydroelectric Project had advanced to Phase Three. It’s taken forty years for our province to come full-circle and realize that, once again, northern British Columbia is a significant piece of our provinces future and our bankroll. Forty years ago, it was [...]

Recently, we attended the World Resource Investment Conference, sponsored by Cambridge House International Inc., Canada’s largest producer of Resource Investment Conferences. As a worldwide conference, this show featured exploration and mining companies from USA, Europe, Australia, South America, Asia and Africa and from right here in British Columbia. Here though, the objective was to mine [...]

Victoria Times Colonist The HST might be the best thing the government could do to help the province’s economy. It might bring investment, jobs and lower prices. … Click for more

It amazes me how two businesses that offer similar products in the same town can both start off at the same time and one will take off and the other may get by, but eventually will fail. Being in business in the first place means you want to be the successful business, the one that [...]

Well, Apache Corp, a U.S. independent oil and gas company, just bought 51% of the Kitimat LNG port in British Columbia. Kitimat will begin exporting about 700 million cubic feet per day in 2014. Apache’s share of that equals about a … Click for more

I’m frustrated. I try to pay attention to things that affect my world and I’m weary from the lengths I have to reach to find information that is factual. I travel extensively throughout Northern BC and I listen to satellite talk radio from a number of different sources so I feel, perhaps blindly, that I’m [...]

Hello Prince Rupert   July 22, 2009: Recently, Global TV News profiled the community of Prince Rupert. Several local shopkeepers and businessmen were interviewed for the story. Each expressed their disappointment that the Port of Prince Rupert wasn’t yet working at capacity. Clearly, for them, the Port was largely responsible for the community’s economic woes. [...]

Things will get worse here for the forestry sector. The largest market for lumber is the US and people seem to think that things are going to get better there this summer. Think again. In the US there are over 20 million vacant homes. That is right 20 million houses that no one is living [...]