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
Government ‘clear as mud’ on Trans Mountain: IEEFA
Report finds lack of transparency over government’s acquisition, financing of pipeline project
B.C. forestry prospects good, despite market challenges
Drop in lumber prices, China-U.S. trade war among dark clouds on industry’s horizon
Vancouver gas prices set all-time record high, expected to climb into summer
Metro Vancouver gas prices have broken the all-time record high with a number of stations showing 164.9 cents per litre on Monday morning. Dan McTeague, a Senior Petroleum Analyst with GasBuddy.com,...
Metro Vancouver aims to address pot greenhouse stench
Metro Vancouver will try to deal with odours coming from marijuana greenhouses in Delta and throughout the region. The district’s climate action committee last week approved a series of...
LNG Canada to get new CEO
Andy Calitz, seconded to lead $40 billion LNG Canada project, is headed back to Shell
LNG and opportunities for Indigenous-industry joint ventures
Canada’s emerging liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry is at an exciting stage in its development on Canada’s west and east coasts. FortisBC’s Tilbury LNG facility in Delta, B.C., is already...
Regulation is coming … to cryptocurrency exchanges
The now infamous QuadrigaCX scandal, in which $190 million in customer funds went missing, has once again ignited debate regarding the appropriate regulation of cryptoasset exchanges. QuadrigaCX is...
Horgan pledges to build museum, hospital with mass timber
Premier John Horgan announces plans to try to address challenges for interior forest sector
An unconventional approach to conventional assets
International Petroleum Corp. made two acquisitions worth $1.2 billion in cycle downturn
Ocean salmon survey nets interesting results
First major winter ocean expedition found fewer pinks, more coho than expected