| Core Business |
Objective |
Strategies |
| New Ventures/Energy and Minerals |
Double oil and gas production in British
Columbia by 2011. |
- Develop and implement regulatory processes to provide
clarity.
- Enhance one-window regulatory authority for oil and
gas.
|
| Energy and Minerals/Resource Development |
Generate $20 billion of cumulative investment
in the oil and gas sector by 2008. |
- Develop and implement a marketing strategy to promote
British Columbia's resource investment opportunities.
- Participate in relevant investment related trade missions.
- Promote British Columbia's resource investment opportunities
to major oil and gas producers that do not currently operate
in British Columbia.
|
| Energy and Minerals |
Stimulate and facilitate initial coalbed
methane (CBM) production.
Increase mining exploration and development activity.
|
- Develop and implement a competitive regulatory framework
and royalty regime to facilitate CBM production.
- Continue development of CBM databases and geoscience
projects.
- Expedite permit issuance by implementing a one-window
permitting authority for mining.
- Continue development and refinement of mining strategy
to stimulate exploration and development.
- Provide for mineral access and development requirements
in all land planning initiatives.
- Develop and deliver projects to increase opportunities
for First Nations in subsurface and resource development.
- Enhance mineral title administration by moving towards
a map selection system.
|
| Resource Development |
Stimulate investor interest in British Columbia's alternative
energy sectors. |
- Develop and implement a strategy to position British
Columbia as a center of expertise for the development
of certain key alternative energy technologies.
|
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Implement components of Government's energy policy pertaining
to electricity. |
- Develop strategies to implement those components of
the energy policy pertaining to electricity.
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