Energy & Mining

British Columbia will allow the Mount Polley Mine to resume limited operations. The mine’s tailings dam broke last year, polluting nearby waterways.

Young’s amendment to the Interior Department spending bill passed the House Tuesday by voice vote after a brief debate.

An icebreaker leased to Shell had to return to Dutch Harbor early Friday morning after its hull was found to have a rupture.

The agreement with the U.S. government, five Gulf Coast states and more than 400 local governments comes five years after the Deepwater Horizon spill.

Billions of dollars worth of drilling equipment and support vessels operated by Royal Dutch Shell are sitting out in the Bay in front of Dutch Harbor this week.

According to the letter, Shell must maintain a 15-mile buffer between its two rigs while drilling takes place.

There’s very little opposition in the tiny Alaskan town in comparison to that in Seattle, where some environmental activists went so far as to chain themselves to one of Shell’s Arctic drilling support vessels last month.

Environmental groups say they’ve found a fundamental flaw in Shell’s plan to drill in the Chukchi Sea this summer and they’re asking the government to rescind its approval.

A Canadian mining company says it’s found richer deposits of gold and copper ore at its controversial KSM project. It’s spending $16 million to continue to explore for more at its site, upriver from Ketchikan, this summer.

A coal mining company proposes completely removing the water from a tributary of the Chuitna River, which is a salmon stream.