Backgrounder: Canada and BC Hydro invest in green energy in mines and power facilities
Backgrounder
The Government of Canada is investing more than $16.3 million through the Green Infrastructure Stream of the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program to support three green energy projects in British Columbia.
Project information:
Location |
Project Name |
Project Details |
Federal Funding |
BC Hydro and project proponents Funding |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Regional District of Cariboo |
Barkerville Gold Mines Electrification |
Funding will fully electrify underground mine equipment at the proposed Cariboo underground gold mine and processing plant and connect an existing substation to BC Hydro’s electricity grid. |
$2,500,000 | $2,500,000 |
Town of Princeton |
Copper Mountain Mine Trolley Assist |
Funding will electrify haul trucks at Copper Mountain using a trolley assist system consisting of grid-powered electric wires and pantographs and replace several remotely located diesel powered water pumps at the mine site with electrically powered pumps. |
$2,500,000 | $2,500,000 |
City of Vancouver |
Creative Energy Decarbonization |
Funding will decarbonize and reconfigure the Creative Energy steam plant to install new electric steam boilers, powered by clean energy through a new approximately 1.2 km underground power line connected to BC Hydro’s electricity grid. |
$11,350,000 | $11,350,000 |
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