No cash for blacked-out businesses: BC Hydro
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA - BC Hydro president Bob Elton said the utility has no plans to compensate downtown businesses for money they lost during the recent massive power failure - an amount one business group estimates at $36 million.
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Canadian gold mine cleans up its act with electricity
TORONTO - Mining operations get a lot of flack for creating environmental problems around the world. Yet they provide much of the basic material that keeps the global economy humming. Some mining companies are drilling down in their efforts to clean up their acts.
As the world’s fourth-largest gold mining company Goldcorp has received its share of criticism about the impact it has on the environment.
In 2016, the Canadian company decided to do something about it. It partnered with mining-equipment company Sandvik and began to convert one of its mines into an all-electric operation, a process that is expected to take…
