{"id":13550,"date":"2018-06-26T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=13550"},"modified":"2018-06-27T09:24:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T13:24:47","slug":"municipalities-join-forces-to-address-greenon-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/26\/municipalities-join-forces-to-address-greenon-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Municipalities Join Forces to Address GreenOn Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>On May 2nd, 2018, the Ontario government announced that the\u00a0Province\u2019s Carbon Market Funding was funding four new Wood Heat Pilot Programs. The program was aimed at\u00a0communities without access to natural gas that rely on a mix of wood, propane, fuel oil and diesel-generated\u00a0electricity to heat homes and other buildings. Sioux Lookout and Wawa were the only two municipalities in\u00a0Ontario awarded funding under the Green Ontario Fund (GreenON) along with two Indigenous-led pilots in\u00a0Nishnawbe Aski Nation territory.<\/p>\n

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On Friday, June 22nd, GreenOn advised the communities that the incoming government has shut down the Wood\u00a0Heat Pilot program effective immediately.<\/p>\n

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Both Sioux Lookout and Wawa have been lobbying the government for natural gas for several years. Both\u00a0communities have completed Municipal Energy Plans which identified biomass as an alternative energy source\u00a0to reduce the cost of heating homes and businesses and to assist in attracting larger commercial industry and\u00a0jobs to the areas.<\/p>\n

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Sioux Lookout\u2019s Mayor Doug Lawrance said, \u201cSioux Lookout is only one of a handful of municipalities in\u00a0Northwestern Ontario that do not have Natural Gas. This puts us at a competitive disadvantage considering the\u00a0majority of the community\u2019s tax base is shouldered by the residential tax payers. It is my hope that we can\u00a0convince the incoming government to reverse this decision for the economic benefit of people in Northern\u00a0Ontario\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>\u201cOn behalf of the Council of the Municipality of Wawa and the Board of Directors of the Economic Development\u00a0Corporation, I am disappointed that the Wawa Wood Heat Rebate Program has been closed by the incoming\u00a0government. The response to the program had been strong with 25 applications for assistance received and\u00a0many more under development. The Wood Heat Rebate program was supporting local business, creating new\u00a0jobs and building economic development opportunities in Wawa and in all four participating communities. I am\u00a0positive that the incoming government under the leadership of Premier Designate Doug Ford will support the\u00a0continuation of the wood heat rebate program based on the jobs being created in our economically depressed\u00a0region of Northern Ontario. I look forward to speaking to the Premier about the importance of this program to\u00a0Northern Ontario in the very near future,\u201d said Wawa Mayor Ron Rody.<\/p>\n

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The program was expected to encourage growth of local and regional economic activity related to biomass\u00a0in Northern Ontario. Both Sioux Lookout and Wawa have already forged partnerships with businesses and\u00a0industries to deliver the Wood Heat Rebate Programs.<\/p>\n

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from the GreenOn.ca website this morning:<\/p>\n

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Jun 26, 2018 @ 11:30 On May 2nd, 2018, the Ontario government announced that the\u00a0Province\u2019s Carbon Market Funding was funding four new Wood Heat Pilot Programs. The program was aimed at\u00a0communities without access to natural gas that rely on a mix of wood, propane, fuel oil and diesel-generated\u00a0electricity to heat homes and other buildings. Sioux …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,41],"tags":[1430],"class_list":["post-13550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-community","tag-wawa-wood-heat-rebate-program"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 12:07:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13598,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13550\/revisions\/13598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}