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Originally Posted by puffnstuff
It started with a Kevin Van Tigham Bsky post
"A comprehensive audit of mines in BC found that for every 100 jobs promised when companies were seeking approvals, only 12 were actually delivered. So Northback is promising, at best, 48 jobs -- while putting at risk hundreds of jobs that already exist. But for the UCP, evidently, math is hard."
And then he provided the source when asked about it.
Mining companies operating in BC are not required to report employment at their mines, and rarely do so on a voluntary basis. We were therefore only able to audit employment predictions for 17 of the 27 mines (Table 4#and Table S2). On average, these 17 mines produced only 12% of the predicted jobs (−88% in#Table 4).#
Which is from this report.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/org/sc...71167124001261
A lot of good info in that report |
This is a relatively common and disgusting practice with industrial developments. Job numbers are vastly overinflated to beef up the pitch for subsidies. Or temporary construction numbers are presented as a total job pitch while the ultimate result is like 30 permanent jobs.