“If senior governments fail to act, local governments and First Nations in B.C. will bear the brunt of managing and paying for the costs of invasive mussel mitigation,” water board executive director Anna Warwick Sears says in a letter to Vernon City Council.
https://www.castanet.net/news/Vernon/455620/Invasive-mussels-could-cost-BC-economy-129M-annually-if-they-take-hold-in-province