Rio Tinto bought Alcan in 2007. Today, the Kitimat smelter, known as BC Works, accounts for about 14 per cent of Canada’s aluminum production. The smelter employs more than 1,000 people and ...

B.C.’s sole aluminum smelter, located in the northwestern town of Kitimat, has landed square in the crosshairs of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff war, leaving its owner scrambling to adjust.

Rio Tinto’s bet in the Québec’s Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, to build the first big Western aluminum smelter in more than ...

As of mid-morning Thursday, a liquefied natural gas carrier was in the Pacific off Haida Gwaii, bound for Kitimat, having loaded earlier this month at a terminal in Queensland Australia.

Starting this week, all unwrought aluminum produced at the BC Works smelter in Kitimat and exported to the U.S.—which is to say 80 per cent—will face tariffs of between 25 per cent and 50 per ...

Starting this week, all unwrought aluminum produced at the BC Works smelter in Kitimat and exported to the U.S.—which is to say 80 per cent—will face tariffs of between 25 per cent and 50 per cent. It ...