Resources & Agriculture

A subsidiary of China's state-owned energy giant, CNOOC, is taking a $32 million stake in Vancouver-based Western Potash Corp. (TSX:WPX) to help develop a new potash mine in Saskatchewan.

Purchase of old Canadian mills might make sense globally but is a risky business, says analyst

B.C. farmers are taking on increased risk from climate change and are not getting the help they need from government, according to a report released Thursday by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions.

In its final written submission to the National Energy Board, the province has declined support of Enbridge’s controversial North Gateway project because the proposed pipeline does not meet Victoria’s environmental criteria for heavy-oil projects.

Canada’s energy security ranking has fallen from seventh place in 2009 to eighth, which puts the country behind the U.S., according to a Fraser Institute study released this morning.

Aspirations of newly created Venture Company Association part of the program at World Resource Investment Conference in Vancouver

Necessity has been the mother of invention for companies making good wood out of bad

Kinder Morgan Canada's proposed pipeline expansion project has taken another step through regulatory hoops.

Teck Resources Ltd. (TSX:TCK) is investing roughly $900,000 in a new treatment process being developed by Vancouver clean-tech company BioteQ Environmental Technologies Inc. (TSX:BQE) to remove selenium from mine effluent.

A company that wants to build a coal mine on Vancouver Island will have to fill information gaps in its application, the BC Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) has ruled at the eleventh hour.