Platinum price plunges to 14-year low

The discovery has already pushed British authorities to start mulling plans to ease rules on accessing shale oil and gas, including drilling without landowners' permission.

The suit says the agency may kill the project before mine plans are finalized or it’s evaluated through the permitting process.

On top of the fine, one of the bank's former traders has been banned from working in London.

The B.C. government’s annual three-day LNG Conference opened May 21 in the shadow of an announcement that Russia had signed a $400 billion, 30-year deal to supply natural gas to China – one of B.C.’s hoped for long-term liquefied natural gas customers.

Leica Geosystems and Kansai Construction Survey Company announced today the release of the KUMONOS system, a safe and easy-to-use concrete crack monitoring system using the Leica Viva TS11 Total Station.

The lawsuit alleges Barrick knew or should have known that it would have to overcome significant obstacles with its $8.5bn Pascua-Lamas gold-silver project.

Separatists seized Thursday four Ukrainian coal mines in the east of the conflict-torn country.

This is the first time a lawsuit brought by anti-nuclear plaintiffs has been successful in Japan's forty-year history of nuclear power.

An initial 90-day moratorium on new prospecting permits could be extended if necessary, authorities said.