The British Columbia government has released a list of 18 critical mineral and energy projects worth roughly $20 billion that it is working to expedite in response to ongoing tariff threats from the United States. The list includes projects facing opposition from First Nations groups and environmental organizations.
VICTORIA — The British Columbia government has released a list of 18 critical mineral and energy projects worth roughly $20 billion that it said it's working to accelerate in the face of ongoing tariff threats from the United States.
Its release comes after Premier David Eby said on Monday that the government was expediting some projects to diversify the economy, assuming there would be"four years of continual on-and-off tariff threats" from the United States under the presidency of Donald Trump. In addition to four mines, there are three energy security projects, and 11 BC Hydro clean energy ventures that mostly involve wind power.
A third mine on the list, Highland Valley Copper Mine, southwest of Kamloops, has been opposed by the Stk’emlupsemc te Secwepemc Nation, which said in November it would not consent to its expansion because the impact would be"neither reasonable nor sustainable" and the mine had already harmed its ancestral lands and water.
Stewart Muir is the CEO of Resource Works, a Vancouver-based advocacy organization that focuses on natural resource development. He said the list of expedited projects"will impress investors and one would think it's intended to impress the public because it is a clear delivery of something that, in a very short time, was brought to the highest level of provincial government priority.
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