Public invited to Columbia River Treaty info session

The B.C. government will host a virtual information session about the recent Columbia River Treaty (CRT) agreement-in-principle (AIP).

Canada and the United States reached a milestone in their negotiations to modernize the CRT in early July.

“Modernizing the Columbia River Treaty is a once-in-a-generation chance to look beyond the original treaty’s goals of power generation and flood-risk management,” said Katrine Conroy, B.C. Minister Responsible for the CRT.

The AIP is a series of guiding principles that will be used to guide the finalized version of the Treaty.

The AIP ensures the new treaty will have pre-planned flood control and cooperation on hydropower along the Columbia River.

Negotiators also agreed to new provisions including increased flexibility for how B.C. operates its treaty dams, ecosystem health, restoring salmon populations, Indigenous cultural values, adaptive management and collaborative engagement on Libby Dam operations.

The virtual information session will go ahead on Sept. 17 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Pacific time (7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Mountain time).

Members of the Canadian negotiation team will be available to provide details and answer your questions about the AIP.

You can register here and submit questions to [email protected] by Sept. 8.


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