The Oil and Gas Commission (OGC) is a Crown Corporation of the province of British Columbia, Canada. Established in 1998, its mandate is to regulate oil and gas activities and pipelines in the province. Their mandate does not extend to regulating consumer gas prices at the pump.
The OGC was created and defined under the Oil and Gas Commission Act. There are OGC offices in four cities: Fort St. John, Fort Nelson, Kelowna and Victoria.
Famous quotes containing the words oil and, oil, gas and/or commission:
“The river sweats
Oil and tar
The barges drift
With the turning tide”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“No skilled hands
caress a stranger’s flesh with lucid oil before
a word is spoken
no feasting
before a tale is told, before
the stranger tells his name.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he’s in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.”
—Bill Cosby (20th century)
“A sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities as well as those of other people will keep a man from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are worth committing.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)