By Nelson Bennett
Nov. 24, 2015, 8:59 a.m.
Local companies back from China trade mission with multimillion-dollar deals signed
Never mind all the reports you might have read about all the opportunities that China presents for B.C. companies and technology, especially in the natural gas and clean-energy space.
For B.C. business leaders who took part in a massive trade mission to China earlier this month, a few days of breathing Beijing’s semi-solid air would have underscored just how bad China’s air pollution problem is.
And bad is good if you are in the clean-energy business.
“Clean energy is going to play such an important role as a result of everything from air quality to [greenhouse gases] and climate change issues,” said Greg D’Avignon, CEO of the Business Council of British Columbia.