The Province of British Columbia is requesting public input on how they can improve natural resource permitting.
As a community shaped and surrounded by lakes and rivers, Sicamous has a strong interest in ensuring that permitting processes are efficient and effective.
If you have experience with permitting processes, your voice is especially valuable in public engagement opportunity.
The Province's goal for this process is to:
- Streamline permitting
- Remove barriers and delays
- Eliminate duplication
- Simplify processes
- Maintain high environmental standards
There are 16 topics open for feedback. Please take a moment to review them and share your input.
Natural Resource Permitting Improvements Public Engagement
Open until October 17, 2025:
- Construction dewatering
- Low volume water use – exemptions
- Constructing ice roads – exemptions
- Administrative penalties timelines
- Stream restoration
- Riparian Areas Protection Regulation enhancements
Open until December 12, 2025:
- Low volume water use – streamlined authorization
- Groundwater applications – expediting applications
- Changes in and about a stream – best practices
- Changes in and about a stream – streamlining permitting
- Managing all wetland classes
- Wetland – mitigation hierarchy
- Wetland conservation – offset payments
- Wetland identification and delineation manual
- Wetland professional accountability
- Streamlining Forest Act permitting