As US farmers struggling with one of the worst droughts in living memory will tell you, a scarcity of water can be crippling to jobs and livelihoods, even in the richest nation on Earth. Amid the rice paddy fields of south-eastern Texas, the situation looks especially bleak. Last week, the Lower Colorado River Authority [...]
The idea of allowing mobile food vendors on public streets in Saskatoon could invigorate an already bustling downtown but it definitely worked for the City of Regina. “We had the city’s core plaza opening up and we felt food was one way we could attract and support activity,” said Chris Sale, downtown planner with [...]
Eliot Randle, Principal Analyst at IDBS, explains how Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) benefit the food industry: driving productivity, improving quality and supporting collaboration in new product development. Successful food companies drive for increased efficiency while maintaining safety and quality standards. This puts greater demands on employees responsible for monitoring and reporting business critical information. [...]
A new private company called Deep Space Industries announced today that it intends to send a fleet of small spacecraft to near-Earth asteroids with the aim of mining resources and turning them into products using space-based 3-D printers. Last year was thick with audacious private spaceflight company unveilings, including the announcement from Planetary Resources, [...]
Announces full year 2012 production growth of 10% with total production of 100,895 ounces of gold and strengthening of Segovia's management team Gran Colombia Gold Corp. (TSX: GCM) announced full year 2012 production of 100,895 ounces of gold, a 10% increase over 2011. Gold production at the company's Segovia and Marmato Operations in the fourth quarter [...]
Government regulators say bad weather has kept investigators away from a Nova Scotia offshore platform where fire broke out Saturday and the automated fire suppression system failed. Forty-six of the 115 people aboard the Deep Panuke natural gas production platform were flown back to shore as a precautionary measure early Saturday morning following an [...]
Orbite Aluminae Inc. shares rose more than six per cent in heavy trading Tuesday on news that the Quebec company has produced its first tonne of high-purity alumina. The stock reached $2.82 in midday trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange, up from the previous close of $2.65, with more than 2 million shares changing [...]
Mining and the Yukon are often synonymous. The territory has long been the site of countless mining explorations and endeavors. For almost 70 years, the Yukon Chamber of Mines has represented Yukon's mining industry and the members' various interests. It grew from 12 members in 1943 to over 400 members in [...]
- By Sunjay Mathuria Since their modest beginnings in 1993, FundyPros Specialty Construction has grown into a leading one-stop shop construction company in New Brunswick that provides a variety of services. Centrally located to serve the entire province, FundyPros does it all: exterior finishing and interior finishing suited for each specific [...]
In April 2008, the province announced the Fort St. John Hospital and Peace Villa residential care project, an ambitious endeavor to build a new hospital and residential care building, which would provide modern healthcare facilities to the far reaches of northern British Columbia. After four years of planning, coordinating, construction and building, the two [...]