{"id":99053,"date":"2022-05-25T11:19:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T15:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=99053"},"modified":"2022-06-07T11:45:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T15:45:24","slug":"address-to-smithers-council-when-will-the-town-take-climate-change-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/address-to-smithers-council-when-will-the-town-take-climate-change-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Address to Smithers Council: when will the town take climate change seriously?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matrtin Halsbaure attended a May 24th Smithers Town Council meeting to speak about a potential life-saving program for British Columbians.<\/p>\n<p>It was good timing, because a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/environment-climate-change\/news\/2022\/05\/engaging-canadians-on-a-national-adaptation-strategy-to-build-a-climate-ready-economy-and-communities.html\">federal effort to address climate change was put out to all Canadians<\/a> until July 15th of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Steven\u00a0Guilbeault, launched a public consultation to develop Canada\u2019s first National Adaptation Strategy, a whole-of-society blueprint for coordinated action across the country, ensuring communities and Canadians are prepared for the impacts of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Halsbaure spoke to Smithers Council about extreme weather and the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepaceprogram.ca\/about-us\/\">PACE program<\/a> so that people start to adapt their lifestyles to reflect better, more environmentally conscious choices in Smithers, to gain traction in order to make waves on a larger scale.<\/p>\n<p>Martin is asking for support from Skeena-Bulkley Valley MPP Taylor Bachrach, as well as Cabinet Minister Nathan Cullen for provincial support of his program.<\/p>\n<p>The Property Assessment Clean Energy program, started in California in 2007 which enables homeowners to borrow money (low interest, long term) to invest in energy-saving retrofits of home features such as heat pumps and energy-efficient windows.<\/p>\n<p>Halsbaure spoke to Smithers council to ask that they assist and support his bid to MPP Bachrach to make a more concentrated effort to incentivize more residents of Skeena-Bulkley Valley to invest in the PACE program.<\/p>\n<p>His presentation to Smithers council was not the first time he's made this presentation. As a Terrace resident, he presented to Terrace Council last year, but he says while municipalities are supportive, actions toward real Clean Energy efforts die on the vine at the provincial level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full interview with Martin Halsbaure in the clip below.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matrtin Halsbaure attended a May 24th Smithers Town Council meeting to speak about a potential life-saving program for British Columbians. It was good timing, because a federal effort to address climate change was put out to all Canadians until July 15th of this year. The Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Steven\u00a0Guilbeault, launched&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":99067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,222,223,3265,225],"tags":[15255,1201,15254,5708,15253,15252,15256,15257],"radio":[245],"origine":[280,263,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99069,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99053\/revisions\/99069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99053"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=99053"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=99053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}