Business

Rio Tinto Alcan reached out to Vancouver industry last Wednesday, not only hunting for contractors for its modernization mega-project but promoting local industry and the northern lifestyle to the south.

Last week Prince Rupert’s Internet users experienced severely slower Internet speeds for almost two days.

The federal NDP held their national party convention in Vancouver recently, where among other things they passed a resolution making an oil tanker ban off the North Coast one of the party’s policy goals.

B.C. cities and towns still charge businesses almost three times the residential rate on average, according to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

Finance Minister Kevin Falcon says there are still many people making up their minds about the harmonized sales tax.

After a lengthy period of inactivity, the court case involving Suncor Energy Inc. and Ridley Terminals has picked up again as the two sides proceed to arbitration over more than initially discussed.

Due to an increasing demand for their approach and their services, Ecotrust Canada has moved their Skeena regional office to a new home on 3rd Avenue West, in Prince Rupert.

The allure of game seven of the Stanley Cup finals kept almost everyone in Prince Rupert away from the Enbridge Northern Gateway public information meeting held the same night at the North Coast Convention Centre.

The B.C. government is extending its interim forest and range agreements with aboriginal people to include a new 25-year woodland licence for Crown forests.

Enbridge officials are sharpening their sales pitch for the company’s planned Northern Gateway oil pipeline project, saying it will bring jobs, provide an economic boost and help wean the country from an overdependence on the United States of America.