Bio-Economy

January 17, 2012

Simpson pushes for bio-economy support

The bio-economy could restore connections between communities and their forests, and government has a crucial role to play in fast tracking the industry, says Independent MLA Bob Simpson.

As the Natural Resources Forum continue reading

January 12, 2012

Bio-Economy Report

In 2011 a group of BC MLAs formed the government’s Bio-Economy Committee, tasked with examining the opportunity for BC to take advantage of the emerging bioeconomy. We completed our work last year, and have made a series of recommendations to the government.

You can see those continue reading

January 11, 2012

21st Century Value-Added Forest Industry

Last year I was appointed to the government’s Bioeconomy Committee along with MLAs John Yap, John Rustad, Eric Foster and Ron Cantelon. We were given a mandate to determine if an opportunity exists for BC to take advantage of the emerging bioeconomy and, if so, recommend continue reading

October 28, 2011

Bio-Economy Committee

In July this year, the government set up a small committee of MLAs to explore the opportunities for building a new to the bio-economy in B.C. Over the past few months we’ve been meeting with industry representatives, and other interested parties. Check back here for our continue reading

July 27, 2011

An Emerging Opportunity

Wouldn’t it be great if your clothes were made from biomass rather than petrochemicals? How about cosmetics colored by nano-chemicals from trees rather than toxic dyes?

What if we could make lighter airplane components that would dramatically reduce fuel consumption? Or, plastic bottles that would quickly continue reading

April 20, 2011

A New Forest Sector

Our need to have a definitive plan to revitalize BC’s forest sector has been lost in the political noise reverberating around us just now.

As a result of forest policy changes, the pine beetle epidemic and changes in the marketplace, BC’s traditional forest sector is returning continue reading