Resources & Agriculture

A new study based on three British Columbia coal mines says the economic benefits from the projects, used to justify their approval during the environmental review process, were "significantly overestimated.

CALGARY — A U.S. regulator has ordered TC Energy Corp. to lower the operating pressure on the entire Keystone pipeline system.

Rural Municipalities of Alberta says the total of unpaid taxes from the oilpatch keeps rising despite the industry's boom. In a release, the group says energy companies owe towns and villages in which they operate a total of $268 million.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia is dedicating $200 million toward boosting both the province's food bank system and overall agricultural production and resiliency.

The jobs count at Site C climbed up to just under 4,800 workers at the start of 2023, according to the latest employment figures from BC Hydro.

CALGARY — An Alberta lawyer says the province's energy regulator may have ignored provincial law by not publicly disclosing that waste from a large oilsands tailings pond was escaping containment and seeping into groundwater.

Finance Minister Travis Toews said Albertans have been absolutely blessed over the last year and half with a strong recovery and high energy prices in response to a big surplus and a record non-renewable resource revenue forecast. On Feb.

A British Columbia company that wants to avoid logging sections of at-risk old growth was told by the Crown corporation that manages B.C.'s public forests to cut the trees down or pay to leave them standing, its chief forester said.

Alberta didn't live up to the terms of a deal it has with the Northwest Territories to inform it about threats to its shared watershed after two major oilsands tailings spills, the territory's environment minister said Friday.