Resources & Agriculture

A forestry analyst is warning that companies who can't adjust quickly to take advantage of surging lumber markets are going to miss out on a huge opportunity.

The BG Group has unveiled its plans for a liquefied natural gas plant in Prince Rupert that would bring between 200 and 300 LNG tankers into port each year, consume more than half of the electricity that would be produced by the Site C dam and take five years to build, with construction taking place around the clock, seven days a week.

Talisman Energy Inc. (TSX:TLM) CFO Scott Thomson has been recruited to replace outgoing Finning International (TSX:FTT) CEO Mike Waites, who is retiring.

Catalyst Paper reported a net loss of $9.8 million in the first quarter of 2013, an improved result compared with the $35.2 million loss the company took in the last quarter of 2012.

Slew of job-generating megaprojects, from pipelines to Site C, likely to get rough ride under NDP

More than 100 workers lose their jobs as Domtar closes off a production line in Kamloops

Burnaby-based Lignol Energy Corp. (TSX-V:LEC) (LEC) has announced that it has provided additional funding to Territory Biofuels (TBF), an Australian firm in which it holds shares, and has now become a majority shareholder in the company.

A Simon Fraser University report released May 2 claims that there is at least a 93% probability of an oil tanker spill if Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway pipeline goes ahead.

Canfor Corp. (TSX:CFP) released its quarterly results yesterday and cites increasing U.S. housing activity as a reason for an improved bottom line in 2013’s first quarter.

Profit at B.C. mining companies dropped in 2012, according to PwC’s 2012 BC Mining Industry Survey released yesterday to coincide with B.C.’s Mining Week.