Working on the Land Base

Permits and authorizations are needed for developing, extracting, removing or harvesting resources in B.C.

Major projects range in scope, scale, and complexity. They typically have a significant capital investment, involve multiple complex provincial and federal government applications and authorizations. These cover the different activities and uses of natural resources on the land and consider all significant environmental or social values.

The British Columbia provincial government works with many partners to provide timely decisions for new mountain resort proposals, major resort expansions and other existing projects, such as large marinas.

Opportunities are regularly sought in the natural resource sector to improve sector administration and health and safety requirements for workers, clients, and contractors. This could include new application systems, eligibility criteria or other matters aligned with the opportunity and value associated with activities on the land base.

The Ministry of Forests assigns a client number to each legal entity or individual it does business with. The client number is used for a range of purposes including invoicing clients, awarding contracts, making payments, sending correspondence, and other business reasons.

Fossils are part of B.C.'s natural heritage and include preserved remains of organisms in rock and biological activity such as footprints called trace fossils. The Fossil Management Office provides information, guidance and policies to support protection and management of fossils and fossil sites in B.C. 

• Fossil Management Policy (PDF, 210KB)

Heritage in British Columbia includes archaeological sites - the physical evidence of how and where people lived in the past.