DRILLING OFFSHORE BRITISH COLUMBIA MAY LIGHT ITS FIRE

From: Hart's Petroleum Finance Week | Date: June 30, 2003 | Copyright information

British Columbia is excited about its possible new offshore gas- exploration program--and its bid to host the 2010 Winter Olympics. The Canadian province's capital, Vancouver, is competing with Salzburg, Austria, and Pyeongchang, South Korea, for the games. If it wins, "we hope to light the torch at those Olympics with gas from our offshore energy industry," says Rick Thorpe, British Columbia's minister of competition, science and enterprise.

The province is readying to offer off...

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