Resources & Agriculture

Canada is now the world's top lumber supplier to China, but market fears in the Middle Kingdom coupled with safety and supply issues at home are ringing industry alarm bells in B.C.

Natural gas pipeline operator Spectra Energy Group (NYSE:SE) announced May 14 that it plans to spend an additional $6 billion in B.C. after 2015. The company is currently progressing on a $1.5 billion expansion program in B.C.

The latest in the Baja Mining Corp. (TSX:BAJ) saga is this morning's announcement that John Greenslade has resigned as a director, president and CEO of the company he founded.

As part of her trade mission to Asia, Premier Christy Clark announced yesterday a joint contribution from the federal government and B.C. to help Japan’s efforts to rebuild.

The Mining Association of Canada (MAC) estimates that B.C. could see $30 billion in investment from 30 projects during the next decade. "As the third largest mining jurisdiction in the country, B.C.

Finning International Inc. (TSX:FTT) increased sales 16% during 2012’s first quarter and announced that it will boost its quarterly dividend by 7.7% –even though earnings slumped in the quarter. Finning, which is B.C.

Global mining giant Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO) has swallowed the last independent vestiges of Vancouver's Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN).

Crown corporation says it won't push the “significant costs” of a non-wireless smart meter option onto other customers

Developer envisions intermodal yard, mega-warehouses on Delta farms

Fourth-generation Delta farmer Peter Guichon has told Business in Vancouver that the system that allows governments to take land out of the agricultural land reserve (ALR) either needs to be radically changed or the ALR should be scrapped entirely.