Published Columns and Articles 2024 Trump’s Obsession with Canada’s Water, The Tyee Feb 18, 2025 2018 Out of sight, out of mind? Connecting the dots between Site C and Wood Buffalo National Park The Straight Oct. Opponent of Site C dam sharing concerns with northerners CBC News · 2017 Nov. The mysterious push to make Site C happen. Times Colonist Jan – All Canada’s farmers have a stake in the Peace! Western Dairy Farmer 2016 Oct 10. Wendy Holm on the Site C Dam Alex Harris. Oct. Site C, An interview with Wendy Holm Oct 2016. pierre-emmanuel chaillon July 2 … Continue reading Columns on Water
Canada’s discussion of Trump’s designs on our water has been focused – in the West – on the Columbia. But it is the Peace River that connects the dots to fulfill the long term dream of USACE engineers to bring northern water south to American communities east of the Rockies. Want a selfie of you with THE TAP? Go to Dunvegan, Alberta, just on the border of BC. Future site of the Amisk Dam, designed as the “elbow” that will siphon off water from the north-flowing Peace River and send it flowing south. Conveniently, all the upstream storage capacity is … Continue reading Want a selfie of you with Trump’s tap?
A decade ago, I was asked by Columbia Basin residents to weigh in on Canada’s interest in the future of the Columbia Treaty, ratified in 1964. As negotiations are on pause in the face of Trump’s attack on Canada, I pulled it out to look at some of the implications of terminating the agreement. Click the link below for 60 Years On… Options for the Columbia and the Community at the end of the Treaty Period https://www.theholmteam.ca/60.Years.On.NAKUSP.Apr.2013.pdf Continue reading Columbia Treaty – 60 Years On
Why the Site C Dam Should Never Have Been Built: Two Presentations: We All Have a Stake in the Peace Changing the Dialogue on the Site C Dam One Book: Damming the Peace – the hidden costs of the Site C Dam Lorimer April 2018 and a Vancouver Sun Op Ed: Site C: A Damning Indictment of Process, Vancouver Sun April 25. 2105 Vancouver Sun Continue reading The Tragedy of the Site C Dam
Diamond Springs Water Bottling Cooperative provides a new model for government regulators. Continue reading Diamond Springs Water Bottling Cooperative
This page will follow key news reports on Trump’s battle to capture Canada’s water. As you read them, consider this: In the March 18th Tyee article, the author notes “water is exempt from the NAFTA”. NOT TRUE. John Crosbie is the one who first got away with this and it is shocking to see it still trotted out . Natural free flowing waters delivered at the whim of Mother Nature are of course not covered. BUT change in any way the timing or volume of Mother Nature’s delivery to meet the need of the market and water becomes a good. … Continue reading Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting about… Trump’s Interest in Canada’s Most Precious Resource
A PRIMER ON WATER POLICY AND TRADE ISSUES
Wendy R. Holm, P.Ag.
As Printed in Country Life in BC, December 2001
WATER – The Jurisdictional Issues
Continue reading ARCHIVED: Water and Trade…
Resolutions Received to July 2010
- Abee Women’s Institute, Alberta
- Agricultural Producers Assoc. of New Brunswick
- Alberni Farmers’ Institute, BC
- Alberta Milk
- Angus Ridge Women’s Institute, Alberta
- Argyle Women’s Institute, Alberta
- Armstrong Women’s Institute, BC
- Armstrong, Vernon, Lumby Dist. 4-H Council, BC
- Associated Ginseng Growers of BC
Continue reading ARCHIVED: Canadian Farm Groups endorsing Farmers’ Resolution to Exempt Water from the NAFTA
WATER AND NAFTA: A Dozen Reasons Not to Worry and Why They Won’t Hold Water
April 2004
Wendy R. Holm, P.Ag.
Continue reading ARCHIVED: Water Myths
The below resolution is shelf ready!
The FARMERS’ RESOLUTION (passed by hundreds of farm groups; see post) would list water (HCCS Tariff Item 22.01) as one of the exempted items in:
Continue reading ARCHIVED: Farmers’ Resolution to Exempt Water from the NAFTA
