Resources & Agriculture

Site C critics see energy from Earth's core as hydro alternative but finding suitable sources in B.C. can cost a fortune

Company can weather oversupply of metallurgical coal, lower demand, CEO says

The Gwa’sala-‘Nakwaxda’xw Nations has expressed its concern over the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) Canada’s opening of a commercial sockeye fishery before agreed-upon salmon count levels have been met.

FortisBC is partnering up with the Canadian division of U.S. construction giant Bechtel to help expand its liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in the Lower Mainland.

Embattled Veris Gold has secured bankruptcy protection in the U.S. just a month after the B.C. Supreme Court granted the mining company a creditor protection in Canada.

Productivity in the mining sector has been steadily declining for a decade, and miners need to make radical changes to their business models to reverse this trend, according to an EY study released July 24.

British Columbia has signed a memorandum of understanding with China to increase its trade in energy, particularly liquefied natural gas.

S &P downgrades Walter Energy’s credit rating, points to ‘unsustainable’ debt

The United States Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to invoke a little used provision that may block Pebble Mine – an proposed Alaska copper project backed by Vancouver’s Northern Dynasty Minerals (TSX:NDM) – from being built.

Industry presses mainland China to open market to fresh B.C. berries as local producers fear 2014's blueberry crop will outstrip freezer capacity in the province