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O-Pipon-Na-Piwin and Tataskweyak Cree Nations are calling for improved consultations on the potential for a Final Licence on the Churchill River Diversion and the end of the Augmented Flow Program, which they say has devastated their fisheries.
Manitoba Hydro has been operating on annual interim licences since the project was completed in 1977 and the province has said a final licence will be granted to take Hydro through to 2026. The Augmented Flow Program has been in place since 1986 and has permitted Hydro to operate at a range of water levels and flows above and below what is stipulated in the original licence.
The latest report on Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions is out, and the bad news is in: emissions continue to trend upward. The 2021 National Inventory Report unveils in 2019, Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions grew year-over-year by approximately one megatonne of carbon dioxide equivalent, bringing the country’s annual total to 730 Mt. Canada’s oil and gas sector, followed by transportation, are the two areas that drove the largest rise in emissions, while those increases were somewhat offset by declines in other sectors (notably electricity and heavy industry). The first being that prior to the implementation of the Liberals’ 2017 climate strategy, 2019’s emissions were projected to be 764 Mt.
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THE nearly $65 million in funding poured into Efficiency Manitoba by the federal and provincial governments will result in no expansion of the programs offered by the Crown corporation, but rather a lower bill for Manitoba Hydro.
THE nearly $65 million in funding poured into Efficiency Manitoba by the federal and provincial governments will result in no expansion of the programs offered by the Crown corporation, but rather a lower bill for Manitoba Hydro.
Under the Progressive Conservative government, Hydro was relieved of the role it played in trying to improve energy efficiency at homes, businesses and industrial sites across the province.