Posted by pcook
BC Economy, Business Advice, Economic Development, Viewpoints
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
You have a website and it looks good. You paid someone or had your nephew do the job for you and it is up and running. All the good pictures are loading properly and everything works. Customers should start placing orders with you any day. Just sit at your computer and make money. I hate [...]
Posted by pcook
BC Economy, China, Economic Development, Featured, First Nations, Kitimat, Oil & Gas, Rocky Mountain Foothills, Terrace, US Business, Viewpoints
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
The Enbridge Pipeline debate is still ranging on with a number of new developments and insights for Northern British Columbia. This $5.5 billion 1,172 km pipeline from Edmonton, Alberta to Kitimat, BC is slated to start in 2016. With the price of raw materials in the mining sector increasing and the price of oil at [...]
Posted by pcook
BC Economy, Business Advice, Economic Development, Real Estate, Retail, Tourism, Viewpoints
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
Being located in a rural and/or remote geographic location presents different challenges to the business owner. With a location further away from an urban, where most of your competitors are located it is important to present to your customers that you are the preferred business of choice for them. One of the best ways to [...]
Posted by oneadam
Alternative Energy, Business Profiles, Kitimat, North West, Oil & Gas, Viewpoints
Friday, January 7th, 2011
Windsor Star 1, 2011, that should be a wake-up call for Canada’s oilpatch and the country’s … which would deliver petroleum to a new marine terminal in Kitimat, BC, … Click for more
Posted by oneadam
BC Economy, Fort St John, Mining, North Central, North Coast, North East, North West, Viewpoints
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted by oneadam
Mining, North Central, North Coast, North East, North West, Viewpoints
Monday, June 21st, 2010
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 [...]
Posted by oneadam
BC Economy, Viewpoints
Friday, May 28th, 2010
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
Posted by oneadam
Business Advice, North West, Smithers, Uncategorized, Viewpoints
Friday, May 28th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted by oneadam
Kitimat, Oil & Gas, Viewpoints
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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
Posted by oneadam
Viewpoints
Sunday, August 16th, 2009
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 [...]