Resources & Agriculture

Gold mining

New environmental law further sours Bolivia's investment climate for resource companies

Planned B.C. liquefied natural gas export projects need to align and consolidate to stay viable and speed progress, say experts

Increased global lumber demand and fallout from pine-beetle crisis creating silviculture job boom, but decades-old pay rates turning off labourers

Alterrus Systems Inc. has announced the first retail grocery customer of its Local Garden produce, which is being grown in North America's first VertiCrop urban farming system on the rooftop of a downtown Vancouver parking lot.

As if the prospect of a $1.7 billion copper mine being shut down due to insolvency wasn’t bad enough, Baja Mining (TSX:BAJ) has now reported that an employee has been killed at its financially troubled Boleo mine project in Mexico.

Despite a U.S. natural gas glut, the demand for Canadian natural gas is expected to increase thanks to an expected rise in domestic power needs and oilsands expansion, TD Economics reports.

Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. (TSX-V: BGM) has announced that it has received a partial revocation order from the cease-trade order issued by the British Columbia Securities Commission in August.

Salmon farms in the Broughton Archipelago should treat caged salmon with pesticides to control sea lice in advance of the migration of juvenile pink salmon, according to researches at the Watershed Watch Salmon Society and University of Alberta.

Novagold Resources Inc. (TSX: NG) (NYSE MKT: NG) announced yesterday that its senior vice-president and chief operating officer will be retiring at the end of November.