14 Indigenous-led projects split nearly 2.5 million dollars in provincial funding for projects to reduce carbon pollution in 2018.
As part of an Indigenous partnership with the province in their CleanBC plan, the funding came from the First Nations Clean Energy Business Fund.
That fund aims to reduce the province’s dependence on fossil fuels and to help communities transition to clean energy.
One of the projects receiving funding was a Tsilhqot’in National Government project to transform an abandoned industrial site in to a solar farm.
Thanks to the 300 thousand dollar investment, the farm will be the largest solar farm built and owned by a First Nation in BC.
In Moberly Lake, the West Moberl and Saulteau First Nations will put 150 thousand dollars toward a biomass conversion project at the Twin Sister Native Plant Nursery.
For 2019, CleanBC has invested 18 million dollars to go toward Indigenous projects.
As part of that, the province will be hosting the Indigenous Green Economy Conference in Vancouver today and tomorrow.
