Resources & Agriculture

Mayor says community could be in for ‘decades of growth’ as properties are developed

Capacity in place to deal with spills on either coast; adequate liability funding available: IHS study

North Coast crab fishermen are pulling $100,000 worth of support for important Dungeness crab surveys, following a decision by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada to close the Area A commercial crab fishery July 5.

Newspaper baron David Black, who is proposing to build a large oil refinery in Kitimat, is reportedly puzzled by the lack of interest from potential Canadian investors. The answer to his puzzlement is fairly straightforward: in free markets, capital flows to its most efficient use. Compared with gains that can be had from new oil production, expected gains from new refineries are scant these days.

A junior Vancouver mining company that is exploring for gold in Albania has appointed ex-VANOC CEO John Furlong to its advisory board.

Pacific NorthWest LNG, a large export facility proposed for Lelu Island near Prince Rupert, is seeking a licence from the National Energy Board (NEB) to export 19.68 million tonnes of LNG for 25 years beginning in 2019.

The New Democrats are demanding that Forestry Minister Steve Thomson explain why he signed a decade-long wood chip export deal when a provincial advisory committee expressed concerns over the length and export volume of the agreement.

Forest fires in the James Bay region of Quebec yesterday forced the evacuation of Vancouver-based Goldcorp’s (TSX:G) Éléonore project.

While B.C. ships mostly raw logs and sells less than $350 million in finished wood products, the annual sales of value-added wood products in [Ontario and Quebec] is close to $2 billion

Pat Pimm plans to increase B.C.'s agri-foods exports and revenue over the next four years