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BC Cannot Regulate Its Way Into a Mining Boom
Opinion: A mining boom requires decisions, access and confidence, not only strategies and slogans.
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10 stories, briefs and analysis pieces.
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The NDP Says Critical Minerals. The Permit Counter Says Wait
Opinion: The gap between provincial rhetoric and field-level experience is now too large to ignore.
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Stop Treating Placer Miners Like a Political Problem
Opinion: Placer miners are not relics. They are small business operators working a legitimate part of BC's resource economy.
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Reconciliation Policy Needs Economic Results
Opinion: Good intentions are not enough if rural communities and First Nations lose the projects that would fund opportunity.
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Land Access Is the Quiet Crisis in BC Mining
Opinion: The right to hold a claim means little if miners cannot reasonably access the ground.
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A Serious Mining Province Would Publish the Backlog
Opinion: BC should show the age and status of mining applications instead of making proponents guess.
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The Anti-Mining Playbook Depends on Delay
Opinion: Projects do not have to be rejected outright when process can exhaust their capital and political support.
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Small Operators Need an Advocate in Victoria
Opinion: Policy designed around major mines often misses the reality of placer miners and prospectors.
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Mining Critics Should Have to Name the Replacement
Opinion: If BC says no to its own metals, it should say where the copper, gold, steelmaking coal and molybdenum will come from.
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The Province Should Be Proud of Mining Again
Opinion: BC's mining workers, contractors and rural towns deserve more than apologetic policy language.