Resources & Agriculture

The B.C. government has achieved an 84% reduction in the 2011 mining permit backlog, two months before the target completion date set out in the BC Jobs Plan.

Vancouver-based Rusoro Mining Ltd. (TSX-V:RML) has filed international arbitration against the government of Venezuela 10 months after it nationalized its gold industry and took over the company’s investments without compensation.

Market watchers want to see methodology behind claims of 10.6 million high-grade ounces

Mining : Hostage drama for B.C. silver miner in Bolivia

The federal government, which has recently come under fire over its decision to save $800,000 annually by closing the Kitsilano coast guard station, has found $7.3 million in new funding to ensure other B.C. waterways are safe.

BC Hydro 's former head bean-counter is now officially the utility's CEO – a job he's held on an interim basis since former CEO Dave Cobb 's hasty exit nearly a year ago.

Nearly 70% of Canada’s farmers plan to retire in 10 years, says the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), which is urging the federal government to adopt tax and regulatory policies designed to attract the next generation of farme

Vancouver-based coal miner SouthGobi Resources Ltd. (TSX:SGQ; HK:1878) has announced that its subsidiary, SGQ Coal Investment Ptd. Ltd.

Vancouver-based South American Silver Corp. (TSX:SAC) is speaking out against Bolivian government statements that it intends to nationalize the company’s development-stage Malku Khota silver-indium-gallium project.

A U.S. watchdog has blasted Northern Gateway pipeline proponent Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB) for “pervasive organizational failures” behind a 2010 pipeline rupture and spill in Michigan. A U.S.