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Nearly nine in ten British Columbians want new energy infrastructure built, and most of them want it built faster.

A new poll from Canada Action, conducted by Nanos, puts the numbers beyond doubt:

👉 87% support building energy projects efficiently,
👉 81% want Canada to be a preferred natural gas supplier to the world,
👉 80% specifically back exports to Asia and Europe to cut global reliance on authoritarian regimes.

Here's the part that stands out. 60% of British Columbians don't realize natural gas is already the province's third-largest export. So the support for this industry is overwhelming, even though most people don't yet know how big a role it already plays in their economy.

If support is this strong before people know the full story, what happens when they do?

Read more: newsfilecorp.com/release/301907/New-Poll-Finds-Strong-Majority-of-British-Columbians-Support-LNG-Projects-Energy-Development-and-Exports

Walk into any refinery, pulp mill or power plant in Canada. The pressure vessels, the steel, the welded pipe, none of it assembled itself. It was built by people working in trades most of us have never heard of and couldn't describe.

Boilermakers, ironworkers, pipefitters, welders. They've kept the lights on, the fuel flowing and the mills running for more than 165 years. The work happens at heights, in confined spaces, up the sides of mountains, and it takes years of apprenticeship and certification to do. These workers are not interchangeable.

Robert MacIntosh is one example of what that life looks like. He started at 15 in a Nova Scotia steel works in 1941 and spent five decades building the industrial backbone of the country, coast to coast, earning the first Red Seal for boilermakers in Canada along the way.

The trades that hold everything up are also the ones most people never think about. The question now is whether the next generation will be there to carry them: resourceworks.com/the-trades-that-hold-everything-up/