Nechako River

Three British Columbia First Nations want the provincial and federal governments to live up to a nine-month-old court decision that said there is "overwhelming" evidence a dam on the Nechako River is killing endangered sturgeon.

A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has rejected a petition from two First Nations that asked for an injunction to force the restoration of natural flows of the Nechako River, which has been diverted for 70 years to generate hydroelectricity.

District politicians in B.C. support First Nations seeking to wrest control of water governance from mining company Rio Tinto as the Nechako River's water levels drop too low to support fish.