March 13, 2019
Tsilhqot’in solar farm among 14 Indigenous-led projects receiving CleanBC funding in 2018
Author: Jeff Blagden
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 aban