VICTORIA – The Province has returned nearly $2.9 million in carbon tax dollars to local governments who are committed to becoming carbon-neutral by 2012. The funding was provided through B.C.’s Climate Action Revenue Incentive program, Minister of State for Climate Action John Yap and Community and Rural Development Minister Bill Bennett announced today. The Climate Action Revenue Incentive program (CARIP), announced in 2008, provides a conditional grant to communities who have signed on to the Climate Action Charter, pledging to become carbon-neutral by 2012. Through this annual program, these communities receive a grant equal to 100 per cent of their carbon tax costs to support their climate change efforts and become carbon neutral by 2012, provided they publicly report both their plan and ongoing progress in meeting that goal.
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CLIMATE ACTION REVENUE INCENTIVE PROGRAM GRANTS BY COMMUNITY (Listing of Local Areas of Interest)
- Central Kootenay RD $24,629
- Central Okanagan RD $8,941
- North Okanagan RD $20,156
- Coldstream $3,277
- Enderby $1,335
- Kamloops $79,983
- Kelowna $97,011
- Lumby $4,785
- Penticton $8,957
- Spallumcheen $2,277
- Vernon $22,528
- West Kelowna $12,841
- TOTAL FUNDING $2,888,278
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