Exploring Theme: "Indigenous-led Initiatives"

Opening ceremony at Hot Springs Cove on Aug. 8. Submitted/Clean Energy BC. Canada’s National Observer: Former Hesquiaht Chief Richard Lucas dreamed of a day when his community of Hot Springs Cove would have clean, self-sufficient energy. After 17 years, that dream came close to fruition with the 2021 opening of the Ahtaapq Creek Hydro Project...

An Indigenous-led, cross-border approach has seen great successes. But it needs BC and Canada’s ongoing financial support. Canada’s National Observer: The Columbia River was once the source of the greatest salmon runs in the world. Millions of life-giving sockeye and giant chinook swam upriver to spawn each year. The Columbia’s headwaters are in British Columbia....