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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Sep 26, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) — Rockgate Capital Corp. (CA:RGT: news, chart, profile) (the “Company”) is pleased to report ICP-MS results from three exploration diamond drill holes located approximately three kilometres east of the Central Zone. For reference, the new zone has been named the East Zone.
The purpose of [...]

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is expected to make an announcement today about the development of clean coal and carbon capture technology in Australia.
The Federal Government has a $500 million fund which it draws on to give grants to such projects.
Australia is exploring ways it can help the G8 meet its target of creating a significant [...]