Spatial export analysis

While a signifi cant share, it is even more remarkable when considered in the context of the region’s workforce: with two percent of the province’s labour force in the Northeast, each worker in the region generated $241,000 in export revenue, versus $36,000 in the province as a whole—an almost seven-fold diff erence. [...] The largest export sectors in the Northeast are the energy and fuels sector, followed by the mining sector and, to a lesser extent, forestry. [...] Seventy percent of the Northeast’s export income was generated within the energy and fuels sector ($6.5 billion), and with an abundance of natural gas reserves located in the Northeast, the region accounted for 91 percent of the total value of BC’s exports of energy and fuels. [...] In response to this, and with a view to determining the role played by the Northeast and Peace River regions in BC’s export landscape, the current research on the spa. [...] The majority of the Northeast’s permanent residents live in the Peace River Regional District, located in the southern half of the Northeast region, with a much smaller share living in the Northern Rockies Regional District.