Integrating Essential Skills into Training - National Adult Literacy ...

• 1.6 Million Customers
• 3 rd largest Canadian Utility
First Nations Bridge River • 4,500 Employees
Overview
BC Hydro
Youth Trade Generation Bridge River (BR) Generation
• BR is 235km’s north east of Vancouver and exists in a remote
Hire Program May 2006 location in Stl’Atl’Imx traditional territory
• BR generates 492 Mw of energy, 6-8% of BC’s electrical supply
• Approximately 25 employees
Bridge River Generation First Nations and BC Hydro
• BC Hydro has over 2,000 km of transmission lines
and installations located on 500 reserves belonging
to 150 First Nations bands.
• BC Hydro recognizes that the Aboriginal population
of British Columbia have distinct legal, historical,
and cultural status, and is committed to working
with the Aboriginal population.
First Nations Goals First Nations
• At BC Hydro, part of our approach to maintaining Our long- and short-term strategies to achieving this goal
reliable energy, at low cost, for generations is to
build positive relationships with First Nations
are focused on three elements:
people. • resolving historical grievances
• consulting and accommodating First Nations
• Our 20-year goal is “to establish relationships built interests *
on mutual respect and appropriately reflect the
interests of First Nations”
• improving opportunities for First Nations people and
businesses *