The Blewett Conservation Society has launched a petition addressed to the BC legislature, requesting the government take action to protect domestic water supplies from private enterprises and carry out a water sustainability plan for the community in accordance with BC’s new Water Sustainability Act. The group is concerned about a third attempt to bottle water for export, this time by Okinshaw Water Ltd., which ran a bottled water plant on Shasheen Road in Blewett. The Society's...

In SelfDesign families are given "..direct support from a BC-certified educator, learners and their families gain lifelong skills in how to personalize, adapt, and follow...

What's the problem/issue/organization? The residents of the Nelson North Shore between 6 mile and Kokanee Park are experiencing almost daily helicopter traffic from a new mining...

The Creston Valley Wildlife Act was passed in March of 1968 on the BC Government to prevent invasive species from establishing themselves in the area's wetlands,...

Friends of the Lardeau River is a non-profit society focused on environmental protection of the Lardeau River and the fish and wildlife values supported...

What's the issue? Canadians dispose of more municipal solid waste per capita than any other country in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development according...

The Eastshore Freshwater Habitat Society is a newly formed Society for Habitat on the Eastshore of the Kootenay Lake. Their Water Plan is from Murphy creek...

What's the issue? Affordable housing is scare in BC and the Kootenays. In Nelson, the rental vacancy rate is around 0%, few houses come up...

What’s the issue? Quartz Creek is Ymir's only water supply. The creek is not big and in late summer, it's flow can be critically low. BC...

Duhamel creek is a 56.9 km2 watershed located in the Kokanee Range in the Selkirk Mountains approximately 10 kilometres northeast of Nelson, B.C. The existing...