Oxford County hopes to receive the Ontario Municipal Greenhouse Gas Challenge Fund.
OXFORD COUNTY - Oxford County is ready to participate in the Ontario Municipal Greenhouse Gas Challenge Fund.
The Challenge is part of the Provinces Climate Action Plan and it awards up to $10 million per municipal project that reduces GHG emissions. Manager of Strategic Initiatives Jay Heaman says this is great timing for the County.
"We have several projects, this is great timing because over the last year we have been putting together an energy base line and that is community energy and from there we have been able to extrapolate greenhouse gas inventory at a community level. What we are doing now is taking some of the projects we have been working on, such as social housing construction projects that are going to built to passive house standard. So if we take buildings for example, the idea is to reduce energy required to heat and cool the building by 80 to 90 percent and what that allows us to do from there and transition away from fossil fuel as the primary heating and move over to renewable energy and so that becomes one of the projects that we are going to put forward as part of the challenge."
A total of eight applications for various County and area municipal projects are being submitted to the GHG Challenge.

Woodstock Council Approves Volunteer Recognition Event
Woodstock Receives OLG Payment
NDCC Nominated for BASF Grant
G1 Driver Charged with Stunt Driving
Ontario Extends GO Train Service to Stratford
UPDATE: Thames River Cleanup Gets Rescheduled
Woodstock Choralaires Present: Thank You For the Music
Hawkins Chapel to Become Historical Site
UPDATE: Rainfall Warning Issued for Oxford
Members Needed for Joint Compliance Audit Committee
Assault Charge Laid in Delhi
Oxford MP Reacts to Liberal Majority
RCMP Dismantles Norwich Drug Lab
Theatre Woodstock Presents: The 39 Steps
BBBS Oxford Launches Online 50/50 Fundraiser
Heavy Rain Expected for Oxford County
Woodstock Continues Project on Future Transit
New Municipal Election Nomination Package Now Available
PM Mark Carney Temporarily Suspends Gas Tax
Ontario Proposed Changes to Ban Uniform Charges
Comments
Add a comment