Does regulation delay mines? A timeline and economic benefit audit of British Columbia mines DOI Creative Commons

Rosemary‐Claire Collard,

Jessica Dempsey,

Youssef Al Bouchi

et al.

FACETS, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 9, P. 1 - 12

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Seeking to capitalize on a surge in global demand for critical minerals, the Canadian mining sector claims that regulatory processes like Environmental Assessment (EA) impede and delay mining’s economic benefits. This paper investigates whether regulation has delayed projects how much benefit mines have delivered British Columbia (BC), focusing mines’ performance post-EA. We audit 27 granted an EA certificate BC since 1995 projected open by 2022, comparing each mine’s forecasted actual timelines benefits (production, employment, taxes), identifying publicly-stated reasons any mine delays. Seven of opened time: 13 remain non-operational, 14 operated, seven were delayed. Regulation was cited as factor only three 20 projects; factors commodity prices most common cause delay. Lack data transparency significantly constrained our audit, but which are available underperforming across production (−77%), employment (−82%), tax revenue (−100%). These findings suggest underperformance delays post-EA common, with typically resulting from factors, not government regulations.

Language: Английский

A Parasite Not a Cannibal? How the State and Capital Protect Accumulation Amid Devastation DOI Creative Commons

Rosemary‐Claire Collard,

Jessica Dempsey

Antipode, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 6, 2025

Abstract Nancy Fraser's recent book, Cannibal Capitalism , breathes new life into the eco‐Marxist concept of ecological contradiction, arguing capitalism destroys its own conditions possibility like a serpent eating tail. thesis appears to be playing out in British Columbia forests, where industry is closing mills and cutting jobs, decrying an increasingly limited “fibre basket”. But amid ecosystem degradation industrial forestry has wrought over decades, including impacts now‐endangered caribou, firms state protect capital's ability accumulate: move capital outside BC; replenishes trees, maintains “investability”, attempts avoid caribou extinction without constricting access nature. thus more parasitic than cannibalistic. Taking long view, BC is, broadly, durable despite being anti‐ecological, part due state's powerful stabilising role.

Language: Английский

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Reproducing extractivism: A political ecology analysis of strategic environmental assessment and hydrocarbon extraction in the Arctic DOI
Warren Bernauer,

James Wilt,

Glen Hostetler

et al.

Geoforum, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 162, P. 104275 - 104275

Published: April 14, 2025

Language: Английский

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Energy transitions at remote mines: The implications of transitioning to low-carbon electricity generation for Indigenous rights in northern Canada DOI Creative Commons
Warren Bernauer

The Extractive Industries and Society, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 23, P. 101636 - 101636

Published: March 4, 2025

Language: Английский

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‘Settler’ and ‘internal’ colonialism in ‘Canada’: Reconciling competing conceptual approaches to Canadian Colonialism in the North DOI
Warren Bernauer

Human Geography, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Nov. 25, 2024

Geography scholarship about Indigenous politics in Canada frequently draws upon ideas from the field of settler colonial studies (SCS). Yet, criticisms SCS and application its concepts to Canadian contexts are becoming increasingly common. Such include: an overly rigid distinction between colonialism so-called ‘franchise’ colonialism, a tendency rely on small number non-Indigenous scholars as foundational thinkers lack attention ways which has varied across space-time. This article argues that re-engaging concept ‘internal colonialism’ – older approach focuses identifying parallels imperialist domination third world subjugation peoples ‘internal’ nation states can help advance our understanding colonialism.

Language: Английский

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Does regulation delay mines? A timeline and economic benefit audit of British Columbia mines DOI Creative Commons

Rosemary‐Claire Collard,

Jessica Dempsey,

Youssef Al Bouchi

et al.

FACETS, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 9, P. 1 - 12

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Seeking to capitalize on a surge in global demand for critical minerals, the Canadian mining sector claims that regulatory processes like Environmental Assessment (EA) impede and delay mining’s economic benefits. This paper investigates whether regulation has delayed projects how much benefit mines have delivered British Columbia (BC), focusing mines’ performance post-EA. We audit 27 granted an EA certificate BC since 1995 projected open by 2022, comparing each mine’s forecasted actual timelines benefits (production, employment, taxes), identifying publicly-stated reasons any mine delays. Seven of opened time: 13 remain non-operational, 14 operated, seven were delayed. Regulation was cited as factor only three 20 projects; factors commodity prices most common cause delay. Lack data transparency significantly constrained our audit, but which are available underperforming across production (−77%), employment (−82%), tax revenue (−100%). These findings suggest underperformance delays post-EA common, with typically resulting from factors, not government regulations.

Language: Английский

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0