From: Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Backgrounder
The Fisheries and Aquaculture Clean Technologies Adoption Program is a federal initiative encouraging the adoption of green technologies in the fishing and aquaculture industry. The program provides $20 million over four years to help businesses adopt new, clean technologies into their operations.
This latest funding of over $5.4 million represents a significant investment from the federal government, along with additional funding from the Province of British Columbia, in creating a greener, more ecologically friendly fisheries and aquaculture industry in British Columbia.
The projects receiving funding from FACTAP are:
$28,195 for 607237 BC Ltd. of Quathiaski Cove, BC to invest in a new sonar system for bottom mapping, resulting in fuel savings and bycatch reduction.
The booking of appointments Monday marks the start of a rollout to the general population.
The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority has posted on its website nearly two dozen vaccination clinics, including hours and addresses, that cover communities in Metro Vancouver, along the Sea to Sky corridor and on the Sunshine and Central coasts. Included among the locations are community centres, COVID-19 testing sites, Royal Canadian Legion branches, and Richmond’s River Rock casino.
Vancouver Island Health has sports and community centres, hospitals and an arena among its 19 listed vaccination clinic locations, and Northern Health officials have posted clinic locations in schools, hospitals, recreation and community centres in about two dozen communities.
Sechelt Rotary Club volunteers have been busy sticking and folding over the past week as they prepare nearly 1,000 handwritten cards for the Sunshine Coast’s health-care workers in time for . . .