Charlottetown and Summerside honoured for green energy programs
Energy management engineer Nick Walker, left, observes a pamphlet for the Charlottetown Switch program with Charlottetown chair of environment and sustainability Terry Bernard at city hall on Jan. 19. Rafe Wright • The GuardianCHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — Two P.E.I. municipalities will be receiving national climate change awards for work done this year in regard to green technology programs offered in the province.
The federal government offers several of these climate and energy action awards, aimed to acknowledge multiple levels of government for the work being done to reduce emissions across the country. "There’s still a couple of million dollars, and there’s applications coming in all the time," said Bernard.
“We’ve never seen communities uptake programming like in Charlottetown and Stratford,” Julian Boyle, president of PACE Atlantic Community Interest Corporation, said in a statement issued on Jan. 16. A free brochure available at Charlottetown City Hall, outlining a few of the features available through the Charlottetown Switch Program. Rafe Wright • The Guardian
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