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Prospecting licenses for coal, petroleum, and natural gas

  • GR-0086
  • Series
  • 1883-1946

The series consists of 45 volumes of prospecting licence stubs for coal, petroleum, and natural gas created by the Dept. of Mines, and its predecessor the Bureau of Mines between 1883 and 1946. The licence stubs are arranged in numerical order and include coal prospecting licenses 1-404, coal and petroleum prospecting licenses 405-9500 and coal, petroleum and natural gas prospecting licenses 9501-13000.

British Columbia. Dept. of Mines

Licenses to prospect for coal and petroleum

  • GR-0177
  • Series
  • 1904-1927

The series consists of records created by the Dept. of Lands between 1904 and 1927. It consists of East Kootenay licenses to prospect for coal and petroleum re lot 4593. Volumes contain stubs retained by the department.

British Columbia. Dept. of Lands

Record book of coal, petroleum, and natural gas licences

  • GR-1409
  • Series
  • 1907-1944

This series contains a record book of coal, petroleum, and natural gas licences (1 vol.), with nominal index. The book lists licencee, licence number,. locations, assignments, and file number.

British Columbia. Dept. of Lands

Records of the Government Agent

  • GR-1401
  • Series
  • 1908-1912, 1936

This series contains records of the Government Agent from Cumberland relating to coal and petroleum prospecting licences for lands covered by water opposite the foreshore of Denman Island, Comox harbour, and for other lands in the Sayward and Coast Land Districts. The records consist of correspondence, notices, and plans. These records were filed in a transfer case with the Dept. of Lands on which was noted "Documents from Government Agent, Cumberland, December 18, 1939, to be destroyed under Public Documents Disposal Act. To be retained in this box pending decision of Deputy Minister of Lands."

British Columbia. Government Agent (Cumberland)

Records relating to the history of oil and gas exploration

  • GR-3042
  • Series
  • 1929-1972

The series consists of records from the Dept. of Mines assembled by J.D. Lineham around 1972, in the course of writing a brief history of oil and gas exploration and drilling in British Columbia.

British Columbia. Dept. of Mines and Petroleum Resources

Utilities regulation files and staff reports of the Public Utilities Commission (1929-1972)

  • GR-1390
  • Series
  • 1929 - 1979

This series contains tuilities regulation files and staff reports of the Public Utilities Commission (1929-1972) pertaining to the regulation of private and municipal gas, water, and electric utilities pursuant to the Public Utilities Act. Includes petroleum regulation subject files of the B.C. Energy Commission, Westcoast Transmission Company's rate hearings and pipeline applications (1977-1979), Kitimat pipeline application (1976), records relating to natural gas pipeline applications (1959-1968) and to water power development projects on the Columbia and Peace Rivers (1953-1963), and records of the Puntledge River inquiry (1962).

British Columbia. Public Utilities Commission

Clipping books

  • GR-2590
  • Series
  • 1941-1951

Two volumes of news clipping books, the first from 1941-1943 arranged chronologically; the second, from 1947-1951 arranged alphabetically, mainly by settlement or location, but occasionally by subject. The clippings cover most aspects of mining, including petroleum and coal, such as exploration, operation, demand, labour relations, taxation, war effort and production.

British Columbia. Mineralogical Branch

Crown reserve sale records for petroleum and natural gas rights

  • GR-4240
  • Series
  • 1954-1977

This series consists of records related to Crown reserve sales of petroleum and natural gas rights. The records were created by the Department of Mines and the Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources from 1954-1977. The records were created under the authority of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Act (RSBC 1979, c. 323) to document the sale of resource rights.

Records include news releases identifying successful bidders, the amount tendered, and parcels sold; maps showing the location of the parcels; and public notices of sale. The records are arranged chronologically.

British Columbia. Dept. of Mines

Energy Board records

  • GR-0442
  • Series
  • 1960-1972

This series consists of Energy Board records, 1960-1972. Records include administrative files, published Provincial Power Study and related files, reference library files, studies, and reports. This series has been organized into sub-series A to D with the following sub-sub-series:

A: BC Energy Board administrative files - A1. general alphabetical files (19 boxes); A2. Personnel files (3 boxes)
B: Provincial Power Study - B1. Provincial Power Study administrative and organizational files including the following file subjects: Power supply system - existing, under construction and committed, the power market, power resources - general, special studies, power planning, correspondence outward (14 boxes); B2. Provincial Power Study. Montreal Engineering Company Limited. April 1972 10 Volumes plus index (6 boxes); B3. "New Files" Generated After Completion Of Power Study (1 box).
C: Library: a detailed list of this material is appended to the hardcopy of this finding aid. A list of the articles is in of each box (Boxes 45-70)
D: Miscellaneous - D1. Studies; D2. Reports; D3. Ottawa (one box each)

British Columbia. Energy Board

Records of the Assistant Deputy Minister, Petroleum Resources

  • GR-4232
  • Series
  • 1974-1987

This series consists of the general office files of the Assistant Deputy Minister of the Petroleum Resource Division from 1974-1987. At this time, the position was part of the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources. The majority of the records relate to the administrative functions of the executive's office. This includes organizational charts, draft legislation, audits, agreements, speeches, correspondence, reports, committee records, minutes, and briefing notes.

Records were selected for permanent retention under the executive records schedule number 102906.

British Columbia. Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources (1978-1996)

Land Use Committee files

  • GR-4049
  • Series
  • 1981-1986

This series consists of land use committee files created by the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources from 1981-1986. These copies of the committee files were created and used by the representative from the Ministry’s Petroleum Resources Division. The series includes records of three committees: the Ministry wide Land Use Committee as well as two subordinate committees, the Land Use Coordinating Committee and the Omineca-Peace Regional Resource Management Committee (RRMC).

The records cover a wide variety of issues. The primary objective of the committees was to establish a ministry position for presentation to the Environment and Land Use Committee (ELUC) of Cabinet. This included the creation of a ministry wide land use policy and procedures.

Other issues referenced in the series include: the review and approval of land use projects, including energy or mining projects within the ministry and providing feedback on projects from other ministries such as forest uses or the creation of new parks; creation of protocol agreements with other ministries to address conflicting land use requirements; reviewing the provincial land use strategy; investigating legal issues such as surface and sub-surface rights; reviewing recreation corridors and changes to parks; and establishing mine guidelines.

Records include meeting minutes, agendas, correspondence, reports, research, cabinet submissions, policy documents, and maps. Many of the records are copies sent to all committee members for reference.

The records are arranged by committee, then chronologically by meeting date. The records were transferred under one time schedule number 880193.

British Columbia. Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources (1978-1996)

Environmental fund project reports

  • GR-4012
  • Series
  • 2002 - 2009

The series consists of reports documenting oil and gas development research and studies funded primarily through the Science and Community Environmental Knowledge (SCEK) fund. The fund financially supported and facilitated research, technological innovations, and demonstrations of findings on environmental issues relating to oil and gas exploration and development in BC . The final project reports were created by the Oil and Gas Commission under the Oil and Gas Commission Act (SBC 1998, c. 39), the Petroleum and Natural Gas Act (RSBC 1996, c. 361), the Pipeline Act (RSBC 1996, c. 364), the Forest Act (RSBC 1996, c. 157, s. 51) and the Waste Management Act (RSBC 1996, c. 482) between 2002 and 2009.
The records are arranged by year and internal project number. They include correspondence, reports, and maps. In the 2005 version of the Oil and Gas Regulation ORCS (schedule 163507), the final reports are classified as environmental fund projects – pending/approved (21300-20). In the 2019 Oil and Gas Regulation ORCS, this classification was closed because the funding program was replaced by an independent society external to the Oil and Gas Commission.

British Columbia. Oil and Gas Commission

Oil and Gas Commission dispute resolution records

  • GR-4013
  • Series
  • 2002 - 2010

The series documents the Oil and Gas Commission’s role in resolving oil and gas development issues and disputes between affected parties such as Indigenous groups, landowners or other energy companies. The purpose of dispute resolution is to explore and understand each other’s interests and develop acceptable solutions together. If the commission is unable to resolve the dispute, it must encourage the use of consensual alternative dispute resolution. Under the Oil and Gas Commission Act (SBC 1998, c. 39, s. 8), the commission may authorize one or more individuals to facilitate settlement, and make recommendations that must be considered by the commission before deciding the disputed matter. Under section 9 of the aforementioned Act, the advisory committee to the Oil and Gas Commission may request that the commission reconsider any original decision made on oil and gas development. The commission may grant or refuse this request for reconsideration. The records of the advisory committee provide evidence of the deliberations and advice of citizens to the Oil and Gas Commission. The series includes background documentation, decisions, recommendations, and related correspondence from the advisory committee concerning requests for reconsideration. The records of the Oil and Gas Commission were created between 2002 to 2010 in BC.

The records are arranged chronologically by year or meeting date. They include minutes, reports, briefing notes, recommendations, and decisions. The records are classified as either requests for reconsideration (20400-40) or Oil and Gas Commission advisory committee files (20400-25) under the Oil and Gas Regulation ORCS (schedule 163507), 2005. The 2019 amendment to the Oil and Gas Regulation ORCS removed these classifications because the commission stopped using the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) framework in 2010 when the Oil and Gas Activities Act (SBC 2008, c. 36) came into effect, and dispute facilitation was no longer regulated.

British Columbia. Oil and Gas Commission