Geoscience BC--A new model for geoscience delivery

摘要

The Association for Mineral Exploration BC (AME BC) and a number of British Columbia-based exploration industry representatives recently mounted an education and lobbying effort. The aim was to increase the provincial government's awareness of the important link between publicly available geoscience information and the exploration industry's success, as well as the role of geoscience in increasing a jurisdiction's attractiveness for investment. As a result of this effort, and the desire of the province to bring more exploration activity to B.C., Premier Gordon Campbell announced in January 2005 a 25-million dollars grant to be used for applied geoscience. Twenty million dollars of this grant was directed to minerals geoscience in the province, and 5 million dollars to oil and gas geoscience in the interior basins of B.C.