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 [...]
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
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
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
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
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
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
Vancouver Sun The forecast, drawn up by Houston-based consultant Harold York for the firm Wood Mackenzie, is largely based on the expectation that Alberta oil sells at a higher price on an international market than it does in North America. … Click for more
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
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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