Vancouver, BC – January 18, 2022 – Geoscience BC is set to launch new membership and sponsorship opportunities later this month, making it easier for a wide range of partners to support, provide input, network and stay up to date on its public minerals, energy and water research. Membership opportunities are designed to encourage and […]
Vancouver, BC – January 17, 2022 – This quarterly update from Geoscience BC covers the October to December quarter and provides Geoscience BC research updates, Geoscience BC at NRF and AME Roundup and BC Budget consultation recommends increased funding and more. View Quarterly Newsletter About Geoscience BC Geoscience BC generates independent, public geoscience research and […]
Vancouver, BC – January 14, 2022 – Geoscience BC and the Canadian Society for Unconventional Resources (CSUR) will jointly host a technical webinar to highlight the research of six Geoscience BC research projects featured in Geoscience BC’s Summary of Activities 2021: Energy & Water on February 14. The energy and water research projects cover three […]
Geoscience BC welcomes Kendra Johnston, AME President & CEO as a guest in the latest edition of Digging Deep. Kendra answers questions about the AME Roundup 2022 conference and highlights what to watch for at the hybrid event running from January 31 to February 3, 2022. 1. The theme of AME Roundup 2022 is “Engage. […]
Vancouver, BC – November 25, 2021 – An all-party committee has recommended increased provincial funding for Geoscience BC’s public and independent earth science research in a 2022 budget consultation report. The BC Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services released its Report on the Budget 2022 Consultation on November 15, 2021. In the report, […]
By: Christa Pellett, Vice President, Minerals Geoscience BC’s Christa Pellett summarizes public minerals earth science research in British Columbia’s Southeast Region. British Columbia’s Southeast Region has a long and successful history of mineral exploration and mining. For example, the former Sullivan Mine sustained the economy of Kimberley and the East Kootenays for almost 100 years […]
Vancouver, BC – November 4, 2021 – A new public report and data from Geoscience BC energy research will help to improve models that predict induced seismicity through the use of machine learning techniques applied to northeast British Columbia’s Montney Play. The project is one of a series of four research projects started in December […]
Vancouver, BC – November 1, 2021 – A new research report and data set provide detail on potentially suitable geologic storage for wastewater from natural gas operations in northeast British Columbia’s (NEBC) Montney Play region. Deciding where to place a disposal well can be a complex process, especially in northeast BC’s maturing Western Canada Sedimentary […]
Vancouver, BC – October 21, 2021 – A new Geoscience BC minerals project extension will make more valuable public geoscience and mineral deposit data from technical reports easy to locate, search and access. Called Georeferencing and Data Capture of 2019–2021 NI 43-101 Reports, the project is pairing National Instrument 43-101 Technical Reports (NI 43-101 reports) […]
Vancouver, BC – October 14, 2021 – Most methane found in groundwater in northeast British Columbia occurs naturally, not as a result of natural gas development, according to newly published independent research. Led by researchers at the University of British Columbia’s Energy and Environment Research Initiative, the Peace Region Scientific Groundwater Monitoring Network Installation Study […]