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:
“Oh Gull of my childhood,
cry over my window over and over, take me back,
oh harbors of oil and cunners, teach me to laugh
and cry again that way that was the good bargain
of youth....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.”
—Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)
“When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man’s soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“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)