Integrating Social and Economic Objectives within a modernized
Columbia River Treaty

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Join the Province of B.C. and the CRT Local Governments Committee to learn how social and economic interests for the Kootenay and Columbia River systems are being integrated into river management scenario modelling for the Columbia River Treaty renewal.

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Background materials, details on each performance measure and a link to provide feedback on this work are below.

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Columbia River Interests
Date: January 30, 2023

Time: 6 - 8 p.m. Pacific Time / 7-9 p.m. Mountain Time

Post Meeting Material

 

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Kootenay River Interests
Date: February 2, 2023

Time: 6 - 8 p.m. Pacific Time / 7-9 p.m. Mountain Time

Post Meeting Material

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As Canada and the United States continue negotiations to modernize the Columbia River Treaty, the Canadian negotiating team, which includes Canada, B.C. and the Ktunaxa, Secwepemc and Syilx Okanagan Nations, is exploring different ways of operating the Canadian Treaty dams to support domestic objectives for ecosystems, Indigenous cultural values, and socio-economic interests, in addition to enabling power generation and protection from damaging floods. These efforts are informing Canadian negotiating positions, strategies and proposals.
 

The Columbia River Treaty Local Governments Committee is leading an initiative to identify social and economic objectives and performance measures that are being integrated into this process.

These webinars will provide details and invite feedback on the process underway, and the interests and performance measures that have been identified to date, including flood risk management, navigation, erosion, agriculture, recreation, tourism, and dust generation.

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For more background information on this work, please visit our Background on Socio-Economic Performance Measures Page.

 

Questions can be submitted to columbiarivertreaty@gov.bc.ca
 

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