Resources & Agriculture

Haida Enterprise Corporation (HaiCo) has added another business to its growing suite of enterprises: seafood processing. HaiCo announced Wednesday it has acquired Seapak QCI Processing Ltd. in Massett.

Two B.C. companies are getting close to $150,000 each from Ottawa and Victoria to help them develop technologies to turn agricultural waste into energy. Diacarbon Energy Inc. will receive $142,575 under the Canada-B.C.

Vancouver’s Western Wind Energy Corp.

Escalating capital costs and softening prices are causing mining and metals companies to rethink investment decisions, particularly when it comes to deals, according to a new Ernst & Young report.

Low gas prices, new energy markets drive Methanex to spend $550m relocating idled plant from Chile to Louisiana

Mining: Canadian Zinc, Paragon Minerals to merge

Piling on to Enbridge Inc.’s regulatory troubles, the Northern Gateway proponent is facing new safety-enhancement demands from a U.S. regulator following the company’s recent Wisconsin pipeline oil spill . Following the spill, the U.S.

Catalyst Paper recorded a net loss of $11.7 million in the second quarter of 2012, an improvement over the $25.6 million loss the previous quarter.

Vancouver-based First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (TSX:FM) beat analyst estimates August 1 even though it revealed that second quarter profit fell 9% thanks to lower copper prices and higher production costs.

Vancouver-based Western Wind Energy Corp. is fighting back after a group of shareholders yesterday nominated an alternative slate of directors.