Clean Energy for Rural and Remote Communities program

The Minister of Natural Resources announced an CAD 8 million investment for eight community-led clean energy projects in the Northwest Territories that will support communities to build a cleaner future by reducing their reliance on diesel fuel for heat and power while creating jobs.

 

The investments are:

- CAD 184,000 to Inuvialuit Regional Corporation to promote energy literacy in the community;

- CAD 797,000 to the Arctic Energy Alliance to build community capacity and energy literacy to support and direct their local Community Energy Planning process;

- CAD 1.7 million to the Town of Inuvik to install a biomass heating system to replace the diesel boilers that are currently used;

- CAD 2.6 million to the Tulita Land Corporation to install biomass boilers to heat seven municipal buildings and to establish a forest-based value chain to produce wood chips to fuel the boilers;

- CAD 500,000 to the Deline Got’ine Government to create a community energy plan that will increase energy efficiency and reduce diesel use, generate local green jobs, introduce a 30kWh solar system for the community’s Grey Goose Lodge hotel and respond to increasingly limited access to the winter road;

- CAD 2.25 million to Nihtat Energy Ltd for three projects aimed at replacing diesel-fueled boilers with biomass-heating systems in six public buildings.

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