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Mar 08, 2011Canadian Government Announces Green Energy Funds
March 8th, 2011- In an announcement last week the Federal Government of Canada announced that "it will spend up to $63.8 million for clean and renewable energy projects across the country that it says will help reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions."
While there is no mentioning of geothermal in the announcement one can only hope that part of that money is available to geothermal energy as an additional and base-load capacity renewable energy technology.
"Minister of Natural Resources Christian Paradis made the announcement during a visit to a company which produces ethanol fuel, just east of Montreal.
He said that the government will pay particular attention to funding projects in Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia.
Among the green projects Paradis said that over the next 10 years, $9.2 million will go to the ecoENERGY for Renewable Power program for the Digby Neck Wind Farm in Nova Scotia.
The project consists of installing 20 windmills capable of producing up to 30 megawatts of electricity. The wind farm will produce about 99 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year, enough to supply 10,000 homes.
The government will also spend up to $2.79 million for a wind storage demonstration project on the territory of the Cowessess First Nations, near Regina."
Source: EcoAction.gc.ca
