BOILERMAKERS:
A Boilermaker working atop the massive LNG tank at Kitimat, securing the 92-metre-wide roof. LNG promises abundant opportunities for B.C.’s energy dector.
Always there for B.C. industry, from the beginning and into the future BY RICHARD MACINTOSH
T
he Boilermaker trade was
workers construct, repair, and revamp
development provides about 12,000 jobs
instrumental in 1860’s British
the industrial plants, terminals, and
for British Columbians. The industry
Columbia, when the industrial
storage tanks that are at the heart of
will be responsible for $5.1 billion in
revolution roared its way into the
the energy sector. Always sharpening
government revenues (through federal,
province’s economy. By 1890, the trade
our skills and mastering the ever-
provincial, and municipal taxes) over
was organized into the International
evolving tools of the trade, Boilermakers
the next decade and will represent $122
Brotherhood of Boilermakers union, and
are poised to usher in a new period of
billion in economic activity over that
we’ve been building and maintaining
prosperity and innovation in the wake of
same period.
B.C.’s industrial infrastructure ever
the COVID pandemic.
From B.C.’s bountiful reserves comes
We know how vital B.C.’s energy sector
two per cent of Canada’s daily
A key partner in the forward
is to the Canadian economy and to
conventional oil production and a
development of B.C.’s natural resources
the world’s energy needs. Upstream
whopping 32 per cent of its overall
sector, our union’s highly skilled
conventional oil and natural gas
natural gas production. B.C. is a net
since.
22 B.C. OIL & GAS REPORT • 2022/2023
