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Feds add funds for BC beef market development

Grainews BC’s beef industry, which includes over 4000 ranch operations provincewide, is worth over $250 million to the provincial economy, Lake noted. … Click for more

Avoid using the number 4 with Chinese tourists

Victoria Times Colonist Tourism BC and the Canadian Tourism Commission have said the potential for growth from the Chinese market is huge given the World Tourism Organization … Click for more

Pine beetles’ march across BC is a catastrophe in slow motion

Vancouver Sun You can read that pine beetles have denuded and killed an area of BC forest land equivalent to the area of California and New York combined, but it doesn’t … Click for more

Feds kick in $9 million for aboriginal training

BCLocalNews "It’s good news for the economy of BC and of the region." The Pacific Trail Pipeline is a natural gas transmission system which will run from Summit Lake to … Click for more

Canadian wildfire blackens 99000 acres

UPI.com Officials told the network the blaze, located southeast of Burns Lake, was not expected to get significantly larger because of cooling temperatures and a … Click for more

Imperial Metals resumes operations at Huckleberry mine in BC

CanadianBusiness.com … Imperial holds a 50 per cent interest in the Huckleberry mine, about 125 kilometres southwest of Houston, in the BC Interior east of Prince Rupert. … Click for more

FILE- Flames rage through a smoke cover the Pelican Complex …

… a smoke cover the Pelican Complex … on Yahoo! Canada News Photos. … km west of Quesnel, B.C., on Sunday Aug. 15, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, B.C. … Click for more

Asian forest products group restarts B.C. paper mill

Montreal Gazette … Tembec Inc.’s two pulp mills in France for $133 million has completed the acquisition of the Mackenzie softwood pulp mill north of Prince George, BC. … Click for more

Rio Tinto Alcan prepares to upgrade Kitimat smelter

Daily Commercial News Rio Tinto Alcan says it will close and dismantle two of the Kitimat smelter’s pot … as it steps up the pace of a major modernization of the BC operation. … Click for more

Encana caps blown out B.C. well

Calgary Herald The BC Oil and Gas Commission also is investigating the blowout. Foul play is not suspected in the incident, according to authorities. Click for more

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