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
Why civic governments are trying to restrict cannabis-growing on ALR land
Delta pushes provincial government to cap the number of cannabis operators on farmland
Some crude facts
Anti-pipeline activists claim there is no demand for Alberta crude in China, but the IEA and IHS Markit say otherwise
Multibillion-dollar questions cloud Trans Mountain’s future
If pipeline isn’t expanded, Canada will have to write off $2 billion for nothing
Coast Tsimshian protest sale of land to Nisga'a
Lax Kw'alaams and other Coast Tsimshian tribes object to sale of land to Nisga'a
Oyster farmers use government funds to reseed beds
Oyster farmers on Vancouver Island, who have endured several difficult years, have this season taken advantage of a provincial fund designed to help stabilize the industry. More than 100 oyster...
Woodfibre LNG rents out Squamish building for future workers
Lease is in under-construction building downtown
Canfor to permanently shutter Vavenby sawmill
Canfor plans to sell tenure to Interfor, which could trigger intervention by forests minister
West Fraser to temporarily close five B.C. sawmills
Mills in Chetwynd, Fraser Lake, Quesnel, Smithers and Williams Lake will close for a week this month
American firm offers equity stake in Kuterra fish farm
American company building land-based salmon farm in Maine also wants to develop West Coast industry