Resources & Agriculture

Remaining dependent on the United States as the only foreign market for its oil and gas exports will cost Canada up to $50 million per day, according to a report released today by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce (CCOC).

Growth of Chinese economy good news for B.C., says PwC director

Lafarge predicts Texada Quarrying, B.C.’s oldest mining operation, to have another 200 years’ worth of limestone

Mining giant Anglo American plc has withdrawn from a large-scale project in Alaska it co-owned with Vancouver’s Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. (TSX:NDM).

United Steelworkers members in Prince George hope a 97% vote to strike will spur Canfor (TSX:CFP) to meet their demands for wage increases.

Conifex Timber Inc. has secured $100 million of financing for its stalled bioenergy project in Mackenzie, B.C.

Canada not yet in line with U.S. and EU, but Harper gives hope to disclosure advocates

The province’s wood products makers expect to see $48 million in sales in three days at the annual Global Buyers Mission event.

Minister of Natural Gas Development Rich Coleman has completed a tour of six proposed LNG sites and nearby communities in northern British Columbia, the provincial government announced September 5.

Market uncertainty, volatile commodity prices and tens of billions of dollars in writedowns have forced the volume of mining mergers and acquisitions both in British Columbia and globally to drop more than 30% in the first half of 2013.