Posts Tagged ‘Vancouver’

Dejour Completes Second Tranche of Flow Through Financing

October 22nd, 2009

VANCOUVER, British Columbia–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dejour Enterprises Ltd. (NYSE AMEX: DEJ/TSX: DEJ) announces that it has closed the second tranche of its $2,000,000 non-brokered private placement announced on September 28, 2009 through the sale of flow through shares at C$0.60 each for gross proceeds of C$225,000, and the sale of 375,000 shares to a leading Canadian private [...]

Startup plans $60M biomass plant

August 11th, 2009

A St. Helens startup wants to build a $60 million biomass electricity plant in central Oregon.
Biogreen Sustainable Energy Co. hopes to have its proposed 20 megawatt plant in La Pine operating in two-and-a-half years.
Biomass energy is created by burning organic material such as wood waste to create steam to power turbines.
Biogreen hopes to secure around [...]

Sierra Geothermal Amends Employee Stock Options

June 12th, 2009

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Sierra Geothermal Power Corp. (TSX VENTURE:SRA) (”SGP”) today announced that it has amended and reduced the exercise price [...]

Anglo Canadian Uranium Corp. Announces Otish Basin Uranium Exploration Results

May 27th, 2009

VANCOUVER, BC, May 27, 2009 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — URA | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating — Anglo Canadian Uranium Corp. (TSX-V: URA | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) (FRANKFURT: AU3) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce it has received a final interpretation report of the airborne survey completed on its [...]

BLM authorizes Grand Canyon uranium exploration

May 7th, 2009

The Bureau of Land Management has authorized several new uranium exploration permits near the Grand Canyon despite a congressional resolution last year barring new claims near the national park.
According to documents (pdf) released yesterday by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Grand Canyon Trust, BLM on April 27 authorized Quaterra Alaska Inc. to [...]

Western GeoPower Acquires Second Geothermal Reservoir in California

May 6th, 2009

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire - May 6, 2009) - Western GeoPower Corp. (TSX VENTURE:WGP) (FRANKFURT:WE6), a renewable energy company, today announced the acquisition of approximately 3,000 acres of private geothermal leases with a confirmed high-temperature geothermal reservoir, at South Brawley, in Imperial County, California. The South Brawley leases grant Western GeoPower the right to develop the [...]

Teck cuts 1,400 jobs, 2009 coal production

January 8th, 2009

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Teck Cominco Ltd (TCKb.TO: Quote) will cut about 1,400 jobs, or 13 percent of its staff, as part of its plan to clip costs and keep competitive as commodity prices remain weak, the Canadian mining company said on Thursday.
Teck, which expects to save about $85 million annually with the job cuts, also [...]

Western Canadian Coal gets environmental permit

November 25th, 2008

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - British Columbia has granted Western Canadian Coal Corp an environmental permit for its Hermann coal mine project, the province said on Monday.
The C$55 million ($45 million) open-pit project in northwestern British Columbia is expected to produce up to 1.1 million tonnes of metallurgical coal annually over 10 years, with the [...]

Uranium One books US$2.8B in writedowns in ‘deteriorating economic climat

November 15th, 2008

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Uranium One Inc. (TSX:UUU) has taken a US$2.8-billion writedown, partly offset by an $800-million reduction in future tax liabilities, and is cutting costs across all operations amid a “deteriorating economic climate.”
The company, active in Kazakhstan, South Africa, the United States and Australia, placed the Dominion mine in South Africa on care and [...]

QuestAir and Terasen Gas Sign Memorandum of Understanding for Biogas Project Development in B.C.

October 2nd, 2008

Vancouver, BC, October 2, 2008–(T-Net)–QuestAir Technologies Inc. (TSX: QAR; AIM: QAR) and Terasen Gas Inc. have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding whereby the companies will work jointly on the development of potential projects to produce supplies of bio-methane from organic waste. This clean energy source would be injected into Terasen Gas’s existing pipeline [...]