Volume 4, Issue 2, May 2009
GMF funding update
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Mayor Jean-Maurice Matte, Town of Senneterre, Québec |
The thermal park will capture waste heat from the Boralex-Senneterre cogeneration unit and redistribute it to farming, agri-food, agro-industrial and processing companies.
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Mayor Murray Driscoll, Town of Quispamsis, New Brunswick |
The Town of Quispamsis, New Brunswick, recently announced the construction of their new multipurpose recreational centre, the QPlex Wellness and Conference Centre, supported by $2.3 million in grants and loans from FCM’s Green Municipal Fund™ (GMF).
By the end of the construction, the new building will be LEED® Gold Certified — one of only a handful buildings in New Brunswick built to the LEED benchmark.
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| Union des municipalités Annual Conference May 14–16, 2009, Gatineau, Québec 41st Annual Conference of the Corporation des officiers municipaux agréés du Québec (COMAQ) May 20–22, 2009, Trois-Rivières, Québec Brownfields Marketplace Breakfast Summit May 27, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario Canadian Association of Municipal Administrators Annual Conference June 1–3, 2009, Whistler, British Columbia FCM 2009 Annual Conference June 5–8, 2009, Whistler, British Columbia Canadian Green Building Council National Summit: “Every building can be green” June 9–11, 2009, Montréal, Québec ICLEI World Congress June 15–18, 2009, Edmonton, Alberta FCM Sustainable Communities Conference February 10–12, 2010, Ottawa, Ontario  We're updating our website! Tell us what you think... |
While sustainable development is on the radar for municipalities across Canada, small and rural communities may feel disadvantaged by limited resources compared to their larger counterparts. Never fear — a growing number of small communities have proven that sustainable development is indeed possible in smaller settings. In fact, small communities have a lot to teach others about innovation, leadership and creativity, as these award-winning small-town initiatives show.
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The FCM–ICLEI Partners for Climate Protection (PCP) program is a network of Canadian municipal governments — large and small — that have committed to reducing greenhouse gases (GHGs) and acting on climate change. Small and rural municipalities dominate membership in the PCP program: about 66 per cent of member municipalities have populations under 50,000, and about half of those have populations under 10,000. Small communities are clearly doing their part!
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FCM’s Green Municipal Fund™ (GMF) is committed to a more client-centred service. We have been listening to what you have to say, and we have heard you loud and clear.
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- Greenhouse gas action plan guides Whitehorse
(City of Whitehorse, Yukon) - Brownfield redevelopment gets green light
(City of Hamilton, Ontario) - Quispamsis trims energy use
(Town of Quispamsis, New Brunswick) - Exhibition Place to showcase sustainable energy solutions
(City of Toronto, Ontario) - Stormwater management improved at model sustainable community
(City of Burnaby, British Columbia)
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PCP members are achieving quantifiable reductions in emissions. Results from an initial scan of municipal reductions measures demonstrate that member municipalities have reduced GHGs by 95,000 tonnes through corporate actions and by 249,000 tonnes through community-wide actions. A second measures report is under development.
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