Resources & Agriculture

VANCOUVER — General Motors Co. has signed a deal to invest US$650 million in Lithium Americas Corp. which is developing the Thacker Pass lithium project in Nevada.

Resource investors predict gold prices could hit record high this year

Partnership formed to capitalize on jobs, contracts with massive KSM project

CALGARY — Imperial Oil Ltd. is going ahead with a $720-million project to build a renewable diesel facility at its Strathcona refinery near Edmonton.

Vancouver-based company Lithium Americas poised to become major lithium producer

Canfor is closing another set of mills in northern B.C., this time in Chetwynd and Houston. The company said Wednesday it was permanently closing its sawmill and pellet operations in Chetwynd, where about 200 jobs are expected to be lost.

Chewtwynd mill to shut down permanently, Houston for extended period

The provincial government and the Nature Conservancy of Canada have given special status to a biologically unique old-growth rainforest near Revelstoke. B.C.

Of eight new mines or expansions in the queue, one is on Nisga'a Nation treaty land

Science secretariat finds no significant impacts attributable to fish farms