Pricey Bank of Canada meeting included trip to oil sands

A Bank of Canada junket to the oil sands at Fort McMurray, Alta., helped push the cost of a single board of directors meeting last June to over $100,000, a CBC News analysis shows.

CBC Ottawa | March 22, 2015 | 5:54 am

RBC predicts potash to offset oil losses in Saskatchewan

RBC Economics is forecasting that the Saskatchewan economy will grow in 2015, even in the face of dropping oil prices.

CBC Ottawa | March 12, 2015 | 12:18 pm

Canada’s mining sector braces for another challenging year

Iron ore suffered the biggest drop in the past year, losing nearly half its value to reach the lowest price in more than five years.

CBC Ottawa | January 1, 2015 | 9:55 pm

First Nation in B.C. sets out tougher rules for mining in its territory

A group of First Nations from Williams Lake, B.C., whose territory includes the area devastated by the Mount Polley tailings pond breach has created a detailed mining policy that will apply to existing, proposed and future projects in its territory.

CBC Ottawa | December 7, 2014 | 10:52 pm

Coal mining revival in Canada’s Alberta eyed by Australian company

The Crowsnest Pass in southern Alberta hasn't seen a working coal mine in decades, but an Australian company has a plan to change that.

CBC Ottawa | September 29, 2014 | 4:04 pm

First oil sands bitumen tanker arrives in Quebec port

Minerva Gloria's arrival deepens community concern for possible oil spill on the St. Lawrence River.

CBC Ottawa | September 23, 2014 | 2:48 pm

Keystone opponents ‘foolish,’ says Calgary mayor

Oil pipeline project is core public policy issue for Canada and the U.S., says Naheed Nenshi

CBC Ottawa | January 29, 2013 | 7:19 pm

Victoria Gold mine could hike Yukon power rates, says report

An environmental screening report says adding Victoria Gold's proposed mine near Mayo to Yukon's power grid could raise Yukoners' power rates by as much as 20%.

CBC Ottawa | September 14, 2012 | 6:52 pm

Vintage shafts reopened at old Canada’s Engineer gold mine

A mining company operating in northwest B.C., Canada, is re-opening parts of a gold mine submerged for almost 90 years.

CBC Ottawa | September 2, 2012 | 5:24 pm

Rockfall at Diavik mine stops open pit work for a week

Five thousand tonnes of rock fell from the edge of the open pit at Diavik Diamond Mine last week but employees got out 10 hours before the rockslide started.

CBC Ottawa | August 16, 2012 | 6:58 pm

Alberta pipeline review to assure Canadians, minister says

A review of pipeline regulations ordered today by the Alberta government is not specifically meant to reassure critics of the Northern Gateway pipeline but if it does, all the better, according to the province's energy minister.

CBC Ottawa | July 22, 2012 | 11:10 am

Discord over NW Ont. mine was avoidable, lawyer says

An American company planning to invest $3.3 billion on a Northern Ontario mine and processing plant has waded into the latest front in a countrywide battle over environmental issues and aboriginal rights, a mining consultant says.

CBC Ottawa | May 16, 2012 | 9:34 pm

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