Resources & Agriculture

A new transmission line and substation project worth $170 million is now powering the grid in the City of Vancouver following four years of construction.

Canadian oil and gas companies will be competing head to head with lower-cost energy producers in the near future, and the country needs a better strategy to remain competitive in a post peak-oil world.

The chambers of commerce across the province have passed a policy that calls on the British Columbia government to maintain full support behind pipeline projects.

First Nations across British Columbia say it is “utterly unacceptable” that the federal government has not taken action to implement Cohen Commission recommendations regarding fisheries and aquaculture management.

British Columbia’s forestry watchdog is again sounding the alarm over the combined effects of forestry, mining and farming on the province’s public land.

Gordon Campbell’s former deputy minister, Jessica McDonald, has been named the new CEO of BC Hydro.

The price of gold slid more than $25 or over 2% an ounce May 27 to a day low o $1,263 an ounce, levels last seen early February.

Kinder Morgan’s (NYSE:KMI) proposed Trans Mountain pipeline project is asking the National Energy Board (NEB) to postpone a deadline to respond to intervenors, citing difficulty responding to the more than 10,000 questions it’s received.

Former B.C. premier Mike Harcourt is going green.

A study commissioned by the Treaty 8 Tribal Association is questioning the Site C Joint Review Panel’s recently announced conclusion that Site C would be “the least expensive of the alternatives” for new energy and capacity within British Columbia.