Resources & Agriculture
BIV's resources and agriculture coverage provides the latest news in the mining, oil and gas, agriculture and fisheries sectors in Vancouver and British Columbia
Record year for Western Forest Products
Despite coughing up more than $43 million in softwood lumber duties, Western Forest Products managed to realize a profit of nearly $70 million in 2018. According to financial statements, the...
Influential Women in Business: Susannah Pierce
Susannah Pierce is the public face of LNG Canada, the largest private project in Canadian history
Cannabis growers not eligible for carbon tax rebate in B.C.
The relief grants return 80% of the carbon tax that commercial greenhouse growers of eligible crops have paid on natural gas and propane
BC Hydro needs to close gaps in its GAAP: auditor general
Government interference has resulted in artificially low power rates
Morton wins case against DFO on fish farms
Federal Court says DFO must require testing for virus before issuing licences
Is B.C. entering a new golden age for copper?
Province has good copper exploration potential, but success is very much a long game
BC Oil and Gas Commission welcomes Redwater decision
Supreme Court puts environmental remediation ahead of creditors when companies go bankrupt
Port yanks permit for coal terminal
The Port of Vancouver has cancelled a permit issued to Fraser Surrey Docks for thermal coal terminal
Mining industry advocate tapped to lead BC LNG Alliance
Bryan Cox, president and CEO of the Mining Association of British Columbia, will begin his role as president and CEO of the BC LNG Alliance mid-February
Scheer puts a target on foreign-funded activism
Conservatives would scrap carbon tax, open north to development, crack down on foreign-funded activism