Alberta First Nations leaders join BC nations in push against Gateway pipeline

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

Aboriginal leaders stand firm against Northern Gateway pipeline

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

Airport safer with improvements

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

A tale of two pipelines: the Northern Gateway and the Keystone XL

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

Public hearings on Enbridge’s Northern pipeline to begin Jan. 10

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

$72B in lost revenue at stake in BC Northern Gateway pipeline

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

Canfor permanently closes Rustad Sawmill and Tackama Mill in BC

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 [...]

Vanderhoof Author’s Second Release Now in Print

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 [...]

Uranium mine lawsuit costs BC $30M

CBC.ca He had no backing to make that statement and it cost the people of British Columbia 30 million bucks to cover up his incompetence.” The 2008 amendments to the Mineral Tenure Act issued by Krueger created a ban on uranium exploration and mining in BC … Click for more

New app released for Northern BC tourists

Mile0city.ca Developed by the Northern BC Tourism Association, the new app is in partnership with the tourism departments of Dawson Creek, Prince George, Smithers, … Click for more

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