Enigin Update - Canada Invest $78 Million to Improve Energy Efficiency
MINISTER of Natural Resources, Joe Oliver, announced yesterday that the Government of Canada is investing $78 million over the next two years to improve energy efficiency.
The programme is intended to create jobs in the energy sector while saving Canada money, by improving energy efficiency in buildings, industries, vehicles and consumer appliances.
“Canadians gave our Government a strong mandate to complete our economic recovery and focus on continued job growth,” said Oliver, speaking in Ottawa. “Support for energy efficiency is an effective way to both create high-quality jobs for Canadians and save...money.”
The Next Phase of Canada’s Economic Action Plan promotes job creation through investments in energy efficiency and clean energy technology. The ecoENERGY Efficiency initiatives will help improve energy efficiency, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality and save money for Canadians and Canadian businesses. These initiatives are expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by approximately four megatonnes, which is the equivalent of removing over one million cars from the road.
The ecoENERGY Efficiency initiatives will implement additional standards, regulations and other cost-effective measures to help Canadians use energy more efficiently. New labelling, benchmarking, training and information sharing tools will help Canadians improve energy performance in all sectors of the economy.
These initiatives will achieve a number of objectives, such as establishing a more stringent National Energy Code for Buildings with provinces and territories, the implementation of new energy management system standards for industrial facilities and upgrade new home energy rating systems to adapt the latest technologies
Enigin Distributors across Canada welcome this iniative and are on hand to help their local industry, commerce and public sector organisations to realise the power of Enigin plc's energy efficiency systems, which substantially reduce energy use, costs and greenhouse gas emissions.
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