Issues & Organizations
Eastshore Freshwater Habitat Society
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...
Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program
The Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program (FWCP) is a partnership between BC Hydro, the Province of B.C., Fisheries and Oceans Canada, First Nations and...
Friends of Kootenay Lake Stewardship Society
Formed in 2012, Friends of Kootenay Lake Stewardship Society (FOKLSS) is an inclusive stewardship organization dedicated to sustaining a healthy Kootenay Lake for future...
West Kootenay EcoSociety
"The West Kootenay EcoSociety is a non-profit community-driven organization that works to bring together local residents to protect the natural environment while building just,...
Waste Management
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...
Blewett Conservation Society
http://www.blewettconservation.com/
WHAT WE'VE ACHIEVED
- Successfully lobbying against a proposed dump site
- Reviewing and commenting on proposed mining activities
- Rallying against wood waste burning beside 49...
Water bottle plant in Blewett
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...
Ramona Faust – RDCK Director – Electoral Area E
Ramona Faust is a three-term Regional District of Central Kootenay (RDCK) Director for Area E, representing 3800 people in the area around Nelson, from...
Duhamel Creek Watershed Society
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...
Household incomes below national average
2016 census data released by Statistics Canada listed median household income in 2015 before tax as:
The national average of $70,336
Highest was Northwest...