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
CBC.ca Stars lend power to fight The public hearings continue in Kitamaat Village Wednesday before moving on to Terrace, BC, Thursday afternoon. MAP Canada’s crude oil pipeline Charting TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline Members from Douglas Channel … Click for more
Vanderhoof Omineca Express Roberts credited the District of Vanderhoof for leading the way in getting … it would mean that any company, be it Air Canada or the BC Air Medevac system … Click for more
GlobalNews.ca As the fate of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway project is decided at lengthy public hearings in Kitimat, BC, Globalnews.ca compares Enbridge’s plans with TransCanada’s Keystone XL proposal. ENBRIDGE: The Enbridge Northern Gateway oil pipeline is a proposed … 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
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
Winnipeg Free Press Last week, Quebec forestry company Tembec signed a deal to sell its Elko and Canal Flats sawmills and the associated 1.1 million cubic metres of lumber and cutting rights from Crown and private land in the southern BC Interior to Canfor for $60 million … Click for more from the Winnipeg Free [...]
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