Resources & Agriculture

Artemis Gold expects to pour first gold by June at Blackwater mine

CALGARY — The completion of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is leading to a boom in demand for drilling services, said Precision Drilling chief executive Kevin Neveu.

Teck Resources Ltd. saw copper production surge in the first quarter compared with a year earlier as its Quebrada Blanca expansion project ramped up toward full production. The roughly US$8.

The university’s Cascade Institute says deep drilling has the potential to provide an unlimited, renewable supply of net-zero power, nearly anywhere on the planet

As B.C. wood pellet exports doubled over the past decade, the author of a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives raises concerns of a 'perfect storm' in B.C.'s forests.

VANCOUVER — West Fraser Timber Co. says it earned US$35 million in its first quarter, up from a loss of US$42 million a year earlier. Earnings per diluted share were 42 cents US, compared with a loss of 52 cents during the same quarter last year.

B.C. and Canadian forestry associations aim to tell a story that places them as the 'hero' in a fight against wildfires. One critic says the strategy is 'mendacious and dangerous.'

B.C.'s Ulkatcho First Nation to get $16-million solar project in a bid to wean the community off fossil fuels and build 'energy sovereignty.'

West Fraser disposes of two Canadian pup mills West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (TSX,NYSE:WFG) has sold pulp mills it owns in B.C. and Alberta to Atlas Holdings for $164 million.

As the world stops buying coal, how will companies pay for massive future remediation and perpetual water treatment operations?