Resources & Agriculture

Trudeau government targets B.C. fish farming

Liberal platform pledges to phase out open-net fish farms by 2025

Sep 30, 2019 5:16 PM Read more >

Restore rural dividend fund, UBCM urges Victoria

Funds taken from one community pocket to be put in another, delegates told

Sep 27, 2019 9:25 AM Read more >

Financial institutions reluctant to bankroll cannabis

Entrepreneurs struggling to secure business accounts and loans

Sep 27, 2019 8:00 AM Read more >

Study pushes B.C. forest sector toward new path

Industry report stresses moving up value-added chain, more export diversification

Sep 26, 2019 3:13 PM Read more >

Hundreds of trucks clog Vancouver streets to protest state of B.C.’s forestry industry (PHOTOS)

The truckers drove in from Merritt for this week’s Union of B.C. Municipalities conference to lobby for reforms

Sep 26, 2019 9:39 AM Read more >

First shipment of solid bitumen on its way to China

Shipping bitumen in solid form by train, shipping container addresses concerns over spills

Sep 25, 2019 4:19 PM Read more >

Truck loggers to descend on Vancouver Wednesday

Roughly 200 truck loggers plan to drive through Vancouver Wednesday

Sep 24, 2019 4:39 PM Read more >

Mining generates $3 billion in business for suppliers

New study shows 3,700 businesses supply goods and services to the mining sector in B.C.

Sep 24, 2019 3:29 PM Read more >

UPDATE: Restore Rural Dividend Fund, Wilkinson tells NDP

Keeping workers in communities during mill closures comes first: premier, forest minister

Sep 24, 2019 2:22 PM Read more >

Enbridge planning $2.5B new gas plant, pipeline in B.C.

Enbridge has started the regulatory process for a new natural gas liquids extraction plant (or “straddle plant”) and associated pipeline in Northeast B.C. with a projected capital cost of $2.5 billion.

Sep 23, 2019 10:55 AM Read more >