{"id":58294,"date":"2021-06-18T09:58:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T14:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58294"},"modified":"2021-06-18T09:58:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T14:58:49","slug":"bcs-axed-climate-action-fund-worries-municipalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58294","title":{"rendered":"BC\u2019s Axed Climate Action Fund Worries Municipalities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BC\u2019s Axed Climate Action Fund Worries Municipalities<\/a><\/h3>\n

Government promises replacement for program that helped towns and cities reduce emissions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Municipalities used funds from the climate program for everything from bike lanes to planting trees to electric vehicle charging stations.\u00a0Photo by\u00a0Paul Krueger<\/a>, Creative Commons licensed.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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After abruptly cancelling a program that helped local governments fund projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, B.C. Municipal Affairs Minister Josie Osborne says she\u2019s committed to working collaboratively with them on a replacement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re here to listen,\u201d she said this week. \u201cI certainly hear from local governments on my monthly calls and am hearing from local governments about those ambitious climate action goals that they have. We\u2019ll be working with them to develop a new program and I\u2019m really looking forward to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

In mid-May Osborne\u2019s ministry let local governments know it was cancelling the $8.4-million-a-year Climate Action Revenue Incentive Program that had been in place since 2010.<\/p>\n

Under the program, originally intended as an incentive to join the province\u2019s climate action charter, the province returns the money that local governments pay in carbon taxes to be invested in climate action.<\/p>\n

Municipalities have used the funding for a wide variety of projects such as restoring habitat, planting trees, conserving water, adding cycling infrastructure, starting composting programs, adding electric vehicle charging stations and installing energy-efficient lighting and heating. In 2018, the program funded 2,723 projects around the province.<\/p>\n

Brian Frenkel, the president of the Union of BC Municipalities and a Vanderhoof city councillor, initially said UBCM members were\u00a0\u201cpuzzled\u201d<\/a>\u00a0by the province unilaterally cancelling the program without consulting them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe UBCM Executive has received an outpouring of responses from our membership since Ministry staff informed local governments this would be the final year for CARIP,\u201d Frenkel later wrote in a May 28\u00a0letter<\/a>\u00a0to Osborne.<\/p>\n

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BC\u2019s Axed Climate Action Fund Worries Municipalities Government promises replacement for program that helped towns and cities reduce emissions. Municipalities used funds from the climate program for everything from bike lanes to planting trees to electric vehicle charging stations.\u00a0Photo by\u00a0Paul Krueger, Creative Commons licensed. After abruptly cancelling a program that helped local governments fund projects […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[11645,94,141,379,23884],"class_list":["post-58294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","tag-andrew-macleod","tag-british-columbia","tag-climate-change","tag-government","tag-thetyee-ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58295,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58294\/revisions\/58295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}