Resources & Agriculture

Dawson Creek city council has approved a company’s proposal to build a liquefied natural gas processing and storage facility within the city limits.

Steelhead LNG Corp., which is planning an export project on Vancouver Island, has hired Ernest Buchan as projects director effective immediately.

Former Canadian Alliance leader and ex-international trade minister Stockwell Day has joined an energy company aiming to build the world’s “greenest refinery” on B.C.’s coast.

Competition for talent from B.C.’s LNG industry pushes up budget of Rio Tinto Alcan project

Africa-focused Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN) has hired BMO Capital Markets Ltd and Morgan Stanley & Co as financial advisers to conduct a strategic review of its copper projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

True Gold Mining Inc. (TSX-V:TGM) has secured financing from Franco-Nevada Corp. (TSX:FNV) and Sandstorm Gold Inc. (TSX:SSL) in an agreement to finance the Karma mining project in West Africa.

B.C.’s privacy watchdog is investigating whether the public should have been notified of the potential risks the Mount Polley mine posed prior to the tailings pond dam breach earlier this month.

The aftershocks from the Mount Polley mine disaster just keep coming for Imperial Metals (TSX:III), which is now being given an eviction notice by First Nations from an area north of Kamloops where the company is looking to develop a zinc-lead mine.

Canadian mining equities continued to show strong signs of improvement during the second quarter of the year, driven mainly by a recovery in metal prices, the latest EY’s Canadian Mining Eye published Tuesday (August 12) shows.

As medical marijuana producers operate under two sets of regulations — at least for the time being — the budding industry has been left somewhat fractured, according to David Brown.