Economic Development
The band has an active business management program, which runs the local roads yard as well as a gas-bar. Many new houses have been built in the subdivsion area near the band office, with an electrical grid.
The area is not served by the main BC Hydro grid, and so (except for the subdivision) all houses are run on generators and solar power.
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