{"id":202286,"date":"2023-12-12T08:46:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T13:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=202286"},"modified":"2023-12-13T13:01:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T18:01:12","slug":"federal-committee-recommends-ottawa-help-establish-a-billion-fund-for-bc-watershed-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/federal-committee-recommends-ottawa-help-establish-a-billion-fund-for-bc-watershed-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal committee recommends Ottawa help establish billion dollar BC watershed security fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The Federal Standing Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development passed a motion last week urging the Federal Liberal Government to help establish a $1 billion watershed security fund for British Columbia.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Taylor Bachrach, MP for Skeena-Bulkley Valley, tabled the motion during committee meetings earlier this month to much debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur committee heard a compelling presentation from the B.C. Wildlife Federation that highlighted the collaboration that exists between groups,\u201d said Bachrach. \u201cA timely federal investment would build on that collaboration and allow BC to meet the challenge that climate change poses for our watersheds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The motion passed with amendments specifically calling on the federal government to contribute matching funds already put up by the Province of B.C., to the tune of $400 million. With $800 million from the feds provincial governments, the BC Wildlife Federation would raise the remains $200 million through private donation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Listen to the full episode below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Standing Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development passed a motion last week urging the Federal Liberal Government to help establish a $1 billion watershed security fund for British Columbia.\u00a0 Taylor Bachrach, MP for Skeena-Bulkley Valley, tabled the motion during committee meetings earlier this month to much debate. \u201cOur committee heard a compelling&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":202336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,222,225],"tags":[34091,1046,1177,18573,2596,7375],"radio":[245],"origine":[280,263,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202286"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202465,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202286\/revisions\/202465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202286"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=202286"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=202286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}