Resources & Agriculture

A fire that broke out just after midnight Sunday has destroyed a Maple Ridge cedar mill, owned by Waldun Forest Products. “The main mill is totally destroyed,” Maple Ridge assistant fire chief Mark Smitton told Business in Vancouver .

Vancouver-based fish farm technology company AgriMarine Holdings Inc. (TSX-V:FSH) has announced a new deal with grocery retail chain Ito-Yokado in China.

The Lakeland Mills planer in Prince George, site of a fatal explosion in April, closed down indefinitely yesterday, leaving workers out of a job once again.

Construction and installation has begun on North America’s first VertiCrop urban farming system, on the top level of a downtown Vancouver EasyPark parking lot at 535 Richards St., Alterrus Systems Inc. announced this morning.

Mining

Spruce, pine and fir log prices in the B.C. Interior bucked the global trend of falling prices by rising about 10% compared with a year ago, Hakan Ekstrom, president of Wood Resources International LLC, told Business in Vancouver yesterday. The U.S.

Faulty equipment, reduced operating time, among company's challenges over past year

Growing interest in pipeline alternative, but railways, associations downplay its potential

Developing the Horn River Basin to facilitate liquid natural gas exports will mean “substantial” benefits for B.C., according to a Canadian Energy Research Institute study published yesterday.

Burnaby fuel cell maker Ballard Power Systems (TSX: BLD) has landed an order for 102 of its fuel cell power generation systems to be used for backup power by Indonesian telecoms.