{"id":41354,"date":"2021-02-23T21:24:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T02:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=41354"},"modified":"2021-02-25T00:51:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T05:51:19","slug":"columbia-river-treaty-negotiations-continue-under-new-biden-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/columbia-river-treaty-negotiations-continue-under-new-biden-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia River Treaty negotiations continue under new Biden administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian negotiators, Indigenous communities and local government representatives are sitting across the table from US counterparts as both sides continue their aims to negotiate a new version of the Columbia River Treaty.<\/p>\n<p>The BC provincial minister who speaks to the critical water sharing agreement and its vital economic development juggernaut, the Columbia Basin Trust, is Kootenay West\u2019s Katrine Conroy.<\/p>\n<p>Conroy, after the NDP election win last fall, was named the province\u2019s first female minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to preparing for the Columbia Basin\u2019s upcoming virtual town hall meeting and update on the treaty re-negotiations, Conroy spoke with Kootenay Co-op Radio\u2019s Kootenay Morning current affairs show about the plight of the endangered mountain caribou and the future of rural BC\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian negotiators, Indigenous communities and local government representatives are sitting across the table from US counterparts as both sides continue their aims to negotiate a new version of the Columbia River Treaty. The BC provincial minister who speaks to the critical water sharing agreement and its vital economic development juggernaut, the Columbia Basin Trust, is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":41356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[222,225],"tags":[6492,6491,2530,6095],"radio":[1420],"origine":[280,2165,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41354"}],"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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41354"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=41354"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=41354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}