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)
“To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist—the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one’s vinegar.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“... when I awake in the middle of the night, since I knew not where I was, I did not even know at first who I was; I only had in the first simplicity the feeling of existing as it must quiver in an animal.... I spent one second above the centuries of civilization, and the confused glimpse of the gas lamps, then of the shirts with turned-down collars, recomposed, little by little, the original lines of my self.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don’t want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.”
—Marian Wright Edelman (20th century)