During the May/June 2012 community sessions, Columbia River Basin residents told the Columbia River Treaty Review team that they wanted to fully understand the range of impacts and benefits of the Columbia River Treaty on Basin communities, the Columbia River Basin region, and the Province as a whole.

In response to this request, the Treaty Review team engaged the former Regional Innovation Chair in Rural Economic Development at Selkirk College to ‘paint the picture’ of the current state of knowledge of Canadian Columbia River Basin area benefits and impacts arising from the Columbia River Treaty and its associated dams in a report.

The report is now complete and a summary was presented at the community consultation workshops in November 2012. The executive summary and full document are available online at http://blog.gov.bc.ca/columbiarivertreaty/review/technical-studies/

If you think there is a published study or piece of analysis that was missed in the report, please email the information to Chris.Trumpy@gov.bc.ca