The Columbia River Treaty has brought significant flood control and power benefits to British Columbia.<\/p>\n\n
| <\/td> | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Flood damage reduction<\/td> | Particularly around Trail, Castlegar, Revelstoke and Creston.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Power generation<\/td> | Assured winter flows for power generation. \nAt-site electricity generation at Mica dam. \n \nAbility to develop additional generating facilities including: Kootenay Canal Plant (1974), Revelstoke Dam (1984), Arrow Lakes Generating Station (2002), Brilliant Expansion project (2007). \n \nPower generating facilities on the Columbia and Kootenay Rivers generate around 44% of electricity produced in British Columbia. \n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Jobs\/Economic Stimulus<\/td> | Generating facilities provide jobs, spin off industries, services from ongoing operations\/periodic upgrades. \nColumbia Power Corporation and Columbia Basin Trust jobs and regional investment. \n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Canadian Entitlement \n(Canada\u2019s share of the downstream power benefits) \n<\/td> | Annual delivery of 1320 megawatts capacity and 4540 gigawatt hours of energy to British Columbia border over last 10 yrs. \nWorth $120-300M annually. \n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Construction cost for the Keenleyside (Arrow), Mica, and Duncan dams<\/td> | Up front cash payments of $64 million for flood control and $254 million for the first thirty years of Canadian Entitlement power.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n<\/h5>\nEven though the four dams [Duncan, Mica, Arrow (Hugh Keenleyside), Libby] improved flood control and power production, the resulting reservoirs in Canada flooded 60,000 hectares (231 square miles) of valley land.<\/p>\n Flooding impacted traditional First Nations\u2019 sites, agricultural and forestry areas, displaced a dozen communities, including approximately 2,300 people, and impacted fish and wildlife habitat.<\/p>\n The rise and fall of reservoir levels continue to affect the surrounding ecosystems, cultural and recreation interests.<\/p>\n In recognition of the long-term impacts in the region as a result of the Columbia River Treaty and the Columbia River Treaty dams, Columbia Basin Trust (a Crown corporation) was created in 1995 to support social, economic and environmental well-being in the Columbia River Basin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Columbia River Treaty has brought significant flood control and power benefits to British Columbia. Impacts of the Columbia River Treaty Even though the four dams [Duncan, Mica, Arrow (Hugh Keenleyside), Libby] improved flood control and power production, the resulting reservoirs in Canada flooded 60,000 hectares (231 square miles) of valley land. Flooding impacted traditional … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/columbiarivertreaty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/columbiarivertreaty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/columbiarivertreaty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/columbiarivertreaty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/columbiarivertreaty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/columbiarivertreaty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/columbiarivertreaty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/columbiarivertreaty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/columbiarivertreaty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/columbiarivertreaty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |