Vernon students will soon be seeing green. Greener buses that is. MLA for Okanagan-Vernon, Tom Christensen, says School District 22 will be getting some provincial funding to purchase some greener buses. “The Vernon school district will receive $830,800 for eight environmentally friendly buses. This funding will allow our community to buy state of the art, clean energy diesel buses that will help decrease air pollution and increase our role in minimizing environmental impacts," says Christensen. He says the funding is coming from the Ministry of Environment, which is providing more than $10 million to schools around the province to allow them to purchase new, clean energy school buses. Three districts, Howe Sound, the Gulf Islands and Saanich, are currently piloting bio-diesel in their new clean diesel buses. In Kelowna, the Central Okanagan school district is taking delivery of a diesel-electric hybrid bus that is the first charge sustaining school bus sold in North America. The clean energy bus initiative supports the Province's clean air and climate change objectives.
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