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Parksville receives $127K in annual provincial climate funding

City anticipates it will receive funds by end of August
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The Parksville Civic and Technology Centre at 100 Jensen Ave. (PQB News file photo)

Parksville council received an update about how the province’s new Local Government Climate Action Program (LGCAP) will affect the city.

LGCAP replaced the Climate Action Revenue Incentive Program (CARIP), which ran from 2011 to 2021. CARIP doled out $9,000 yearly to the city, but the resources and reporting it required from city staff outweighed the funding benefit, according to a verbal report by Jedha Holmes, director of finance, during council’s July 18 regular meeting.

LGCAP provides funding to support the implementation of local climate action that reduces emissions and prepares communities for the impacts of a changing climate.

Parksville will get approximately $127,000 per year, for three years — the dollar amount is based on its population size.

The city will be required to measure and report its greenhouse gas emissions and demonstrate its climate investment, which must be a minimum 20 per cent of the funding it receives. For Parksville, this will be approximately $25,000, Holmes said.

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Parksville must also report climate action spending on projects linked to the objectives of the provincial government’s CleanBC Roadmap to 2030.

Holmes said the city anticipates it will receive the 2022 LGCAP funding by the end of August.

Council voted during its June 20 meeting to allocate $127,000 in LGCAP funding towards its Wetlands Management Plan.

Holmes added the province will provide enhanced energy emissions databases, so the city can look closer at community greenhouse gas emissions and then develop regionally-specific climate change adaptation strategies.

Part of LGCAP’s purpose is to support natural asset infrastructure, such as the Parksville Wetlands, which can be used to mitigate different storm events.


kevin.forsyth@pqbnews.com

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