Resources & Agriculture

Verasen $715 million tower gas plant near Fort St. John gets green light

Verasen Inc. has announced that the Cutbank Ridge Partnership has given the go-ahead for...

Dec 9, 2015 9:05 AM Read more >

B.C.-Alberta powerhouse proposal faces political short-circuit

Alberta wants more renewable power; B.C. has an abundance of it. So why can’t the two provinces form a regional clean-power block?

Dec 7, 2015 11:00 PM Read more >

Goldcorp CEO to leave Vancouver mining company in the spring

Chuck Jeannes says he’ll be ready to retire from the world’s largest gold-mining company following an annual general meeting in April 2016.

Dec 7, 2015 7:46 AM Read more >

B.C. shellfish farmers burned by increasingly acidic ocean

Three years after devastating losses, British Columbia scallop farmers are still waiting for signs their industry will recover

Dec 4, 2015 2:01 PM Read more >

B.C. shellfish growers want entire supply chain probed for bacteria threat

After a recall this summer and with hotter weather expected for the future, B.C. oyster farmers are taking steps to head off future outbreaks

Dec 3, 2015 9:54 AM Read more >

Northern Gateway final investment decision could come in 2016: Enbridge CEO

A final investment decision on the Northern Gateway pipeline project could...

Dec 3, 2015 9:32 AM Read more >

Mount Polley will be permitted to discharge water from tailings dam

The provincial government has granted Imperial Metals’ Mount Polley mine a short-term permit to...

Dec 1, 2015 9:52 AM Read more >

End of an era as the province’s last fish cannery closes

Hundreds of canneries once dotted the B.C. coast – now the last large facility is history

Dec 1, 2015 6:00 AM Read more >

Editorial: Cost uncertainty a Site C certainty

Cost overruns on BC Hydro’s recently completed Interior-to-Lower Mainland transmission line bode ill for taxpayers soon to be on the hook for the Crown energy corporation’s multibillion-dollar Site C dam project.

Dec 1, 2015 5:00 AM Read more >

Policy leaves fishermen high and dry: critics

Federal agency accused of condemning commercial sockeye fleet to feast-or-famine cycle

Dec 1, 2015 5:00 AM Read more >