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Fort St John, North East, Oil & Gas
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
Vancouver Sun CALGARY — A partnership led by Inpex Corp., Japan’s biggest oil and gas company, is spending $700 million for a share of the BC shale gas prospects owned by Calgary-based Nexen Inc. The deal follows Mitsubishi’s bid of $850 million in August 2010 to … Click for more from the Vancouver Sun
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Dawson Creek, North East
Sunday, November 27th, 2011
Vancouver Sun But now he’s got plenty to focus on – he’s just become the youngest person to win a seat on Dawson Creek council. Of the six councillors, he received 867 votes, only 26 short of the leading candidate’s in last Saturday’s civic election. … Click for more of this story from the Vancouver [...]
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BC Economy, Hudson Hope
Sunday, November 27th, 2011
Canada NewsWire (press release)Christy Clark’s BC Jobs Plan states one million job openings are expected in BC in the next 10 years. The Dehua International Mines Group from Vancouver and partner Shougang Iron and Steel are developing coal project near Hudson’s Hope BC requiring … Read the entire press release at Canada NewsWire
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Mining, North West, Smithers
Sunday, November 27th, 2011
MarketWatch (press release) We have decided to direct our entire focus on the Deer Horn property located near Smithers, BC Results from our recent drill program at the high grade near surface gold/silver/tellurium/tungsten property have given further encouragement as to Deer … See the entire Press Release at MarketWatch
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Dawson Creek, First Nations, Fort St John
Sunday, November 27th, 2011
Calgary Herald It’s the Horn River play being developed by Apache and Encana that has the companies looking to build a pipeline across BC to the future liquefaction and export terminal in Kitimat. Apache Canada president Tim Wall said this week even if Kitimat LNG … Click for more on this story from the Calgary [...]
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BC Economy, Oil & Gas
Sunday, November 27th, 2011
As of 2010, B.C.‘s natural gas industry directly employed 12000 people. Over the … to Alberta’s oil and gas regulator, the Energy Resources Conservation Board. … Click for more of the story from Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers
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North Central, Uncategorized, Vanderhoof
Monday, November 7th, 2011
At northernbcbusiness.com we haven’t made much of an effort to cover local authors or local artists. It’s occcured to us, however, that we’re missing out. Randy Wallace is a resident of Vanderhoof who I’ve known since we were both teens. We’ve lost touch over the years but thanks to twitter and facebook our paths crossed [...]
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Mining
Monday, November 7th, 2011
November 07, 2011Bard Announces $500,000 Non-Brokered Flow-Through and Non-Flow-Through Unit Private Placement Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Bard Ventures Ltd. (the “Company“) is pleased to announce that it has arranged a non-brokered private placement (the “Offering“) of up to $500,000 through the sale of up to 5,000,000 flow-through units at a price of $0.06 per unit [...]