Resources & Agriculture

VICTORIA — A beam of sunlight poked through the log beam roof of Victoria's Mungo Martin House, creating smoky shadows as Indigenous dancers circled a fire in a celebration of wild salmon.

Canadian actor William Shatner is wading into the debate over open-pen salmon farming in British Columbia, saying it's time to stop being polite in an F-word-filled video that calls for an end to the ocean farms.

VANCOUVER — Federal Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier says the country's "strict rules" on banning open-net salmon farming are necessary, since the goal is to make British Columbia "a model" in global aquaculture Lebouthillier said Thursday the

Kamloops mill increases reliance on wildfire wood from 2% to 33% in one year

Decarbonizing Canada's electricity grid could lead to a significant uptick in mergers and acquisitions in the renewable energy sector, a new report says.

VANCOUVER — With entrenched views on all sides of the salmon-farming debate in British Columbia, the federal government cast the issue five years down the road on Wednesday, saying aquaculture must move to land by 2029.

The provincial ministry responsible for the Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) has confirmed that a recent order for Woodfibre LNG to house workers on the floatel worker accommodations near Squamish overrides the District of Squamish processes.

Workers to be housed in floatel in Howe Sound following provincial order.

Industry awaits federal government renewal decision as 66 B.C. salmon farm licences expire this month

CALGARY — Canadian oil and gas companies facing a federally imposed emissions cap will decide to cut their production rather than invest in too-expensive carbon capture and storage technology, a new report by Deloitte says.