{"id":3424,"date":"2014-03-04T16:30:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T00:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2014-03-04T16:30:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T00:30:49","slug":"b-c-expands-carbon-neutral-fund-to-include-colleges-universities-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/04\/b-c-expands-carbon-neutral-fund-to-include-colleges-universities-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. expands carbon neutral fund to include colleges, universities, hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/931212_493799904026672_1106673934_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3425\" alt=\"931212_493799904026672_1106673934_n\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/931212_493799904026672_1106673934_n-300x201.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/931212_493799904026672_1106673934_n-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/931212_493799904026672_1106673934_n.jpg 952w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Facebook Page of Mary Polak<\/p>\n<p>VICTORIA&#8211;B.C.&#8217;s hospitals and post-secondary institutions are now able to access up to $9.5 million in government funding for projects that reduce energy costs and carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Minister Mary Polak says universities and hospitals join public schools in the government&#8217;s Carbon Neutral Capital Program, which is expanding to $14.5 million from $5 million.<\/p>\n<p>She says the money is available to the institutions to plan and complete energy-saving and pollution-fighting projects.<\/p>\n<p>The money comes from a seven-year-old program designed to make public-sector operations carbon neutral and encourage them to cut emissions use by charging them $25 per tonne for greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Former auditor general John Doyle reported last year the government was not purchasing credible carbon offsets with the millions of dollars it was charging public institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The lone Green party member in the legislature, Andrew Weaver, says he supports the government&#8217;s move to expand the carbon-neutral program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Facebook Page of Mary Polak VICTORIA&#8211;B.C.&#8217;s hospitals and post-secondary institutions are now able to access up to $9.5 million &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}