Resources & Agriculture

Experts fear one of the world’s most confined airsheds won’t be able to handle emissions from smelter, LNG, increased tanker traffic and oil refinery

Hampton Affiliates still committed to rebuilding Burns Lake sawmill, but the Portland-based company is 'disappointed' by the deferral of the contentious forestry bill

Growers of two new apple varieties created at the Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre in Summerland are getting government grants to promote the species.

Despite the global mining buzz created following the death of the country's president, Vancouver keeps mum about “significant potential” in newly attractive, mineral-rich Venezuela

Vancouver-based Avanti Mining Inc. (TSX-V:AVT) is pushing back after the Nisga’a Lisims Government launched a dispute-resolution process with the provincial government over an environmental assessment – a move that could impede Avanti’s planned restart of its Kitsault molybdenum mine.

Vancouver-based Silvercorp Metals Inc. won’t keep fighting in courts for defamation damages connected with an alleged “short and distort” scheme, the company has announced.

A local startup that has developed mining technology that sorts rock to eliminate lower quality metal ores has received series A funding from Vancouver’s Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital

Vancouver-based Fortress Paper Ltd.’s stock price shot up more than 22% this morning, following the company’s announcement of a deal to sell its Dresden mill for $213 million.

The B.C. government is having second thoughts about area-based tenures – a move that could have implications for plans to rebuild a sawmill at Burns Lake.

Typically an alliance agreement is entered into by the parties to define the purpose governance of the alliance, to set forth the terms and conditions for ongoing funding of exploration and to specify the rights of the parties if results are favourable