All of that and more. I just mean, a buoy that rises with rising energy prices to lessen the blow of an energy crisis.

Indeed, it's pretty !@#$ing awful that that's the condition.

Tech industry in bc employs more people than all the mining oil and gas combined.

The importance of the traditional resource industries feels like an out of date meme leveraged for political reasons. It's not the future for Canada.

BC's biggest exports is still Coal, and then Lumber. I'm sure Natural gas will be added to that list shortly.

That may be true, but at a significant cost. Skilled labour contributing to GDP is rather more useful than trashing the place and making a quick dollar. Just comparing the dollars masks this.

You'd be amazed at how many "traditional resources" it takes to manufacture CPUs and other semiconductors.

We're still a resource extraction economy in Canada. If it's not oil & gas, it's timber, mining, water, fish, food. You look at every major export from any province in Canada and it's mostly resources. Ontario is cars, which I'm not sure is any better.

I understand the hesitance to rely on oil and gas, but what’s wrong with mining?

it's enormously destructive to animal habitats, can poison water supplies.

https://thenarwhal.ca/for-decades-b-c-failed-to-address-sele...