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
Mediated bargaining breaks down for Western Forest Products workers
Western Forest Products announced Tuesday that talks have broken down in mediated bargaining that had resumed Dec. 12 with the striking United Steelworkers Union. Mediators Vince Ready and Amanda...
Why the province’s working forests aren’t working
Industry leader calls for a B.C. working-forest designation with rigid regulatory goalposts
Pattison’s offer to buy Canfor abandoned
Canfor’s stock plunges, but remains higher than when offer first made
Ross Beaty’s Equinox to acquire Frank Giustra’s Leagold
Merger of Equinox and Leagold just the latest in consolidation of gold mining companies into larger entities
Conuma Coal is going electric
Conuma Coal converting its fleet of trucks to hybrid electric power at Wolverine mine
Mining sector grappling with 21st-century challenges
In the five years since the Mount Polly mine disaster, B.C.’s mining industry has focused on tailings pond management and obtaining social licence for resource extraction projects. Its other...
Top B.C. mining stocks grow an average of 87% in 2019
B.C.’s top performers increased almost three times as much as they did last year
Chevron may sell stake in Kitimat LNG
If Chevron sells stake in Kitimat LNG, it wouldn’t the first time it changed hands
Central American mine resistance visits Vancouver
Guatemalan protest leader makes his case in Pan American Silver’s home city
Science expands mining-sector prospects
CO2 sequestration in tailings, rare earths in coal under microscope