{"id":8713,"date":"2023-01-16T17:19:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T17:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/columbiarivertreaty\/?p=8713"},"modified":"2023-02-23T18:17:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T18:17:05","slug":"integrating-social-and-economic-objectives-within-a-modernized-columbia-river-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/columbiarivertreaty\/2023\/01\/16\/integrating-social-and-economic-objectives-within-a-modernized-columbia-river-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrating Social and Economic Objectives within a Modernized Columbia River Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learn about the Columbia River Treaty Local Governments Committee\u2019s efforts to integrate social and economic objectives into river management scenario modelling for the Columbia River Treaty renewal.<\/p>\n<p>Background materials and details on each performance measure can be found on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crtlgc.ca\/copy-of-crt-socio-economic-pm-s-for-r\">Columbia River Treaty Local Governments Committee Socio-Economic Integration webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Columbia River Interests<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: January 30, 2023<br \/>\n<strong>Time<\/strong>: 6 &#8211; 8 p.m. Pacific Time \/ 7 &#8211; 9 p.m. Mountain Time<br \/>\n<strong>Details<\/strong>: Zoom Webinar<br \/>\n<a title=\"January 30 Info Session Agenda\" href=\"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/2023_CRT_SE_InfoSession_AGENDA_JAN30.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agenda (PDF)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/PublicSEInfoSession_Columbia_30Jan2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)<\/a><br \/>\nThis session focused on interests associated with the Columbia River.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Watch the recording\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tbYAHWrFrjg&amp;ab_channel=ProvinceofBC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><button>Watch the Recording<\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Kootenay River Interests<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: February 2, 2023<br \/>\n<strong>Time<\/strong>: 6 &#8211; 8 p.m. Pacific Time \/ 7 &#8211; 9 p.m. Mountain Time<br \/>\n<strong>Details<\/strong>: Zoom Webinar<br \/>\n<a title=\"February 2 Info Session Agenda\" href=\"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/02\/2023_CRT_SE_InfoSession_AGENDA_FEB2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agenda (PDF)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/PublicSEInfoSession_Kootenay_2Feb2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)<\/a><br \/>\nThis session focused on interests associated with the Kootenay River.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Watch the recording\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MMdFR8XLkY4&amp;ab_channel=ProvinceofBC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><button>Watch the Recording<\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Description<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>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, are 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.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crtlgc.ca\/\">Columbia River Treaty Local Governments Committee<\/a> is leading an initiative to identify social and economic objectives and performance measures that are being integrated into this process.<\/p>\n<p>These two webinars provided details and answered questions about the Committee\u2019s initiative, as well as the interests and performance measures that have been identified to date, including those for flood risk management, navigation, erosion, agriculture, recreation, tourism, and dust generation.\u00a0 Participants were invited to provide feedback through an online survey following the webinars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8827 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/BC-LGC-Logos-1-300x54.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"633\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/BC-LGC-Logos-1-300x54.png 300w, https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/BC-LGC-Logos-1-1024x183.png 1024w, https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/BC-LGC-Logos-1-768x137.png 768w, https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/BC-LGC-Logos-1.png 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join these webinars to learn about the Columbia River Treaty Local Governments Committee\u2019s efforts to integrate social and economic objectives into river management scenario modelling for the Columbia River Treaty renewal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info-sessions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/columbiarivertreaty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/columbiarivertreaty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/columbiarivertreaty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/columbiarivertreaty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/columbiarivertreaty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8713"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/columbiarivertreaty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8981,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/columbiarivertreaty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8713\/revisions\/8981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/columbiarivertreaty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/columbiarivertreaty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.gov.bc.ca\/columbiarivertreaty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}