Posted by pcook
Alternative Energy, BC Economy, Business Profiles, Economic Development, Featured, Mining, Oil & Gas, Prince George
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
There will be a number of companies such as Galaxy Broadband www.galaxybroadband.ca and Timberspan Wood Products www.timberspan.ca at an open house on Thursday April 26 at 12985 Willow Cale Road in Prince George. This open house is being presented by Northern BC Business www.northernbcbusiness.com and Northern BC Mining www.northernbcmining.com. At this event businesses involved with [...]
Posted by oneadam
BC Economy, Employment, North East, Tumbler Ridge
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
Tumbler Ridge News A recent announcement by Encana and Mitsubishi will see the Japanese giant investing $2.9-billion to purchase 40% of Encana’s Cutbank play, a sprawling area 165500 hectare area that centres on Dawson Creek, but stretches from Tumbler Ridge in the west … Click for more
Posted by oneadam
BC Economy, Forest Industry, North Central, North Coast, North East, North West
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Vancouver Sun – 1 hour ago BC is ill-prepared to manage B.C’s beetle-ravaged forests as they slide into a long-term decline in both value and diversity, Auditor-General John Doyle said in a report released Thursday. Click for more
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BC Economy, China, Economic Development, Featured, North Coast, Terrace
Monday, February 6th, 2012
The District of Stewart is currently under taking a study on the development of their port to be used for exporting of raw materials. With the Portof Prince Rupertalways expanding the District of Stewart is looking at becoming more of a participant with a creation of a new website www.stewartworldport.com that will eventually promote the [...]
Posted by oneadam
BC Economy, North Central, Vanderhoof
Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Vanderhoof Omineca Express BC Hydro unveiled plans to the district last week for a much bigger substation and new transformer that will double this area’s power capacity. Vanderhoof District’s committee of the whole met with Hydro’s go-to guy last week so they could see plans … Click for more
Posted by oneadam
BC Economy, Employment, Fishing Industry, Forest Industry, Fort St John, Mining, North Central, North Coast, North East, North West, Oil & Gas
Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Canada.com He started his consultation with local business and political leaders as well as other interested stakeholders in Fort St. John. "The immigration task force is part of the BC Jobs Plan. A strategy aimed at preparing for the expected economic boom," Yap … Click for more
Posted by oneadam
BC Economy, Burns Lake, Employment, First Nations, Forest Industry, North Central, North West
Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Globe and Mail After an explosion destroyed the Babine Forest Products sawmill in Burns Lake last week, families in the community lit two candles for missing and injured workers. Then they lit a third candle for the mill itself. Since the mill opened in 1975 as a … Click for more
Posted by oneadam
BC Economy, Hudson Hope, North Central, North Coast, North East, North West
Saturday, January 28th, 2012
CTV.ca Charles Heit, a Gitxsan First Nation member opposed to the $5.5-billion Enbridge oil pipeline from Alberta to the British Columbia port of Kitimat warms himself beside a fire at a camp outside the Gitxsan Treaty Office in Hazelton, BC, … Click for more
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BC Economy, Dawson Creek, Fort St John, Kitimat, North Central, North Coast, North East, North West, Oil & Gas, Prince George, Prince Rupert
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Vancouver Sun Enbridge’s Northern Gateway bid is to build two pipelines from Bruderheim, 60 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, along a 1172-kilometre route to Kitimat on the BC coast. One would be a 36-inch pipe, which would deliver to Kitimat for export up to 525000 … Click for more
Posted by oneadam
BC Economy, Dawson Creek, Employment, Fort Nelson, Fort St John, North East, Oil & Gas
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Alaska Dispatch "There definitely is concern on the part of people living in northeast BC on the scale of developments, which are quite significant already and are only in their infancy,"said Ben Parfitt, an analyst with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, … Click for more
