Resources & Agriculture

Surrey company receives business excellence award for its energy infrastructure work in Alberta and northeast British Columbia

First Nations say they have found themselves in a David and Goliath battle when it comes to participating in and evaluating a BC Hydro plan to build the Site C dam.

The city's vision for a vertical rooftop farm has been soiled after the company that transformed a rooftop parkade into a mass-producing greenhouse – touted by Mayor Gregor Robertson as an example of Vancouver's "booming clean tech sector" – has filed for bankruptcy and owes creditors more than $4 million.

The answer, as the song goes, is blowing in the wind. Yet few jurisdictions are asking the question about the potential of giant windmills to generate electricity at industrial levels.

Premier Christy Clark announced on January 27 that British Columbia's mineral exploration tax credit would be extended for 2014.

Vancouver-based Sabina Gold & Silver (TSX:SBB) is one step closer to developing its large-scale Back River gold project in Nunavut.

The document has been signed and the ink has dried on the community agreement reached between the District of Taylor, located in northeaster British Columbia along the Peace River, and BC Hydro over the potential construction of the Site C dam.

A Vancouver-based startup has won a $285,000 award from U.S. telecom giant Verizon for its pesticide-free pest management system for farms.

The British Columbia Coroners Service will hold a public inquest into the deaths of two workers who died at a northern B.C. sawmill in January 2012.

British Columbians are split nearly down the middle on whether they support or oppose Kinder Morgan's proposal to twin its existing Trans Mountain pipeline, according to an Insights West poll released January 22.