New Brunswick’s natural resources sector employs over 30,000 people and contributes more than $3.98 Billion to the province’s GDP and $600 Million to Fredericton’s GDP. More than 350 local engineering, ICT, biotechnology, environmental and manufacturing companies have links to the province’s natural resources sector as well as natural resource-based businesses and organizations around the globe. Fredericton was recently recognized by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce as one of five “Resource Cities” in Canada.

Regional Opportunities

Oil and Gas: • Proposed $12 Billion

Energy East Pipeline

• Estimated 13 Trillion cu.ft. shale gas reserves

Mining:• Only potash mines outside

of Saskatchewan

• Sisson Project, Tungsten Molybdenum Project near Fredericton

Forestry:• J.D. Irving Forestry sector

modernization projects ($538 Million)

• New Forestry Strategy projected to create 500 new forestry jobs and 1200 construction jobs

• Wood products & biorefining and bioenergy opportunities

Agri-technology:• Innovation, competitiveness

and export development funding ($37 Million)

• Ample, available farmland

• Biorefining and new crop opportunities

FREDERICTONN E W B R U N S W I C K

Merging a Vibrant Knowledge Economy with Our Natural Resources Advantage

NaturalResources

Your Location Advantage• Fredericton, NB ranked #1 most

cost competitive city in Canada (KPMG Competitive Alternatives 2016)

• Top Micro City (fDi Magazine Financial Times 2013-2014)

• Canada’s 4th highest university-educated labour force (2011)

• Canada’ highest job tenure• Closer to Europe than any

U.S. seaport. Linked to US I-95. Airport 17 min. drive

What We Do For You • One-stop shop• Cost-competitive quality building

options • Assistance recruiting and training

your labour force• Pro bono office space during start-up • Broad range of financial incentives

and funding• Aftercare during growth & expansion

“ Twenty-three years ago, like so many other UNB research spin-off companies, we were a small start-up. Today, we help clients in the Americas, Europe, Australia and New Zealand sustainably optimize their land-based assets. Our Fredericton base with its innovation environment is a huge benefit.”

Andrea FuenekesCEO, Remsoft

Start-up Canada’s Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient 2015, Atlantic Region

Globally Recognized Research More than three-quarters of all funded research in the province takes place at UNB Fredericton where four research chairs and nine research

institutes/centres focus on natural resource-based research.

Ultra-high Speed Gigabit Connectivity:

Other jurisdictions: Approx.$2500GoFred Network: $250/month

One of Canada’s 5 Resource Cities

Among NR-Related Research Chairs• CRC in Chemical Contamination of Food Webs• CRC in Aquatic Molecular Ecology and Ecological Genomics• CRC in Materials Science Magnetic Resonance Imaging• Richard J. Currie Chair in Nanotechnology• NSERC/NBPower/AECL Chair in Nuclear Engineering• Canada Research Chair in Pulp and Paper Research• NBIF Research Chair in Advanced Wood Products

Game Changing MRI InnovationWith material science MRI laboratories recognized world-wide, UNB’s MRI Centre’s laboratory developed new methods allowing visualization of a large range of materials including concrete, polymers, composites, food materials and microporous solids. Visualizing fluid in reservoir rocks is opening doors for the petroleum industry.

Select companies working in the natural resources sector

adam.peabody@ignitefredericton.com

Natural Resources Activity Hub

2 kilometers

Oil & GasMiningAgri-technologyForestry

New Brunswick Maple Syrup Association

Canadian Forestry Association of NB

AMEC Foster Wheeler

The SISSON Partnership

Association of Registered Professional Foresters of NB

New Brunswick Energy Institute

Maritime College of Forest Technology

New Brunswick Forest Products Association

Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline

Enbridge Gas New Brunswick

Green Imaging Technologies

Potato Research Centre

RPSUNB

Rally Engineering

REMSOFT

Among Natural Resource Related Centres• Research and Productivity

Council (RPC)• Atlantic Forestry Centre• Hugh John Flemming Centre /

ForestNB• Maritime College of Forest

Technology• Canadian Forestry Association

of NB• Agriculture and Agri-Food

Canada-Fredericton Research and Development Centre

• Limerick Pulp and Paper Research & Education Centre

• UNB Pulp and Paper Research Group

• Wood Science and Technology Centre

• Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Groups

• Remote Sensing in Forest Applications

• Centre for Nuclear Energy Research

• UNB MRI Research Centre• Canadian Rivers Institute

Atlantic Forestry Centre