Resources & Agriculture

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

The federal government ratified an agreement with the United States which provides updates to the Pacific Salmon Treaty, Fisheries and Oceans Canada announced July 17.

The resource industry is a tough nut to crack, according to Neil Huff.

Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC says it will be considering the implications of National Energy Board changes to the regulatory schedule which will delay a board decision on the proposed $5.4 billion Trans Mountain expansion project by seven months.

A National Energy Board decision on Kinder Morgan Canada’s proposed TransMountain expansion will be delayed by seven months after the board determined it needed more information on the feasibility of rerouting the pipeline in the Burnaby, British Columbia area, the board said July 15.

Fossil fuel energy industry jump-starts rapid growth in city of 18,000