The Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, alongside the Honourable Wab Kinew, Premier of Manitoba, will make a funding announcement to support clean fuels production. They will be joined by Douglas Cole, President and CEO of Azure, and Carl Landry, Managing Director of Investments of CIB. Media availability will follow.
Julie Dabrusin, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and to the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, on behalf of the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, will make an announcement at the University of Toronto. A media availability will follow.
In Manitoba, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, joined the Honourable Wab Kinew, Premier of Manitoba, to announce a new combined federal investment of $6.2 million to support the future of sustainable aviation fuels in Manitoba in partnership with the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) and the Province of Manitoba. This federal investment includes $5 million from the Clean Fuels Fund. This investment will support Azure in delivering a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study to unlock domestic growth in this emerging sector. The combined project investments total $12.3 million, including nearly $3 million in investments from the Province of Manitoba.
Julie Dabrusin, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources and to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, and Mike Savage, Mayor of the Halifax Regional Municipality, alongside Darren Fisher, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health and Member of Parliament for Dartmouth-Cole Harbour, as well as Lena Metlege-Diab, Member of Parliament for Halifax West, announced an investment of $980,000 to the Halifax Regional Municipality to install 46 Level 2 and 10 Level 3 fast chargers for a total of 56 chargers at key locations across the Halifax region.
The Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, will provide a keynote address followed by a fireside chat at the BC Natural Resources Forum in Prince George, B.C.
Parliamentary Secretary Julie Dabrusin, Mayor Mike Savage, Parliamentary Secretary Darren Fisher and MP Lena Metlege-Diab, to make a zero-emissions vehicle announcement for the Halifax Regional Municipality.
The Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, alongside the Honourable Wab Kinew, Premier of Manitoba, will make a funding announcement to support clean fuels production. They will be joined by Douglas Cole, President and CEO of Azure, and Carl Landry, Managing Director of Investments of CIB. Media availability will follow.
The Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, and Scott Pearce, President of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, announced an investment of over $1.24 million through the Green Municipal Fund’s Community Efficiency Financing (CEF) initiative. These grants will support communities across Ontario in developing home-energy upgrade financing programs that will help households save money while improving comfort and lowering their emissions.
Today, the Government of Canada launched a call for proposals for national energy systems modelling projects. This call will provide support for energy modellers as they address these challenges and develop new insights on energy technologies and systems that can help Canada reach net zero.