Resources & Agriculture

Analysts' bullish pre-results calls rewarded with strong Q2 postings

Resource officials from B.C. and Alberta will be forming a new working group aimed at expanding oil, natural gas and resource exports, B.C. Premier Christy Clark and Alberta Premier Alison Redford announced July 26.

The provincial government sold 19 plots of land in northeast B.C. for $6.39 million at its monthly natural gas and petroleum sale on July 24.

Forestry deals made waves in an otherwise "quiet" second quarter, PwC reported today (July 26).

Wood products manufacturers have seen a 19.7% jump in production in the 12 months leading to May, with much of the gain benefitting B.C. companies, Statistics Canada reported July 24.

Falling commodity prices have translated to disappointing second-quarter results for two of B.C.’s biggest mining companies.

Former Liberal Party of Canada interim leader Bob Rae is the new chairman of a First Nations consortium executing a large-scale pipeline project in northwest B.C.

Woodfibre Natural Gas Limited, a company proposing a small LNG plant on the former site of Western Forest Product’s pulp mill near Squamish, has applied for an export licence to the National Energy Board (NEB).

The B.C. government released a sweeping report today examining the future workforce requirements for the LNG sector.

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