New Brunswick crop growers may be able to dip into or benefit from a new fund to back projects supporting the provincial climate change action plan.
The province on Friday announced $34 million for the New Brunswick Climate Action Fund, dedicated to public, private and not-for-profit initiatives to reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.
People or groups with proposals in mind must file them with the provincial Climate Change Secretariat by Nov. 2 to be considered for this fiscal year, the province said.
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- Projects should support the initiatives in the province’s Climate Change Action Plan, the province said. Initiatives from that plan of interest to farmers include:
- encouragement of research and development of biofuels produced from either crops such as corn, barley or wheat, or from wood waste;
- support for the use of biofuels with a view to requiring a minimum average of five per cent ethanol in gasoline and five per cent biodiesel in diesel fuel sold for vehicle or heating fuel use in the province (in co-operation with the federal government);
- assessing opportunities and value for agricultural carbon sequestration as part of the development and promotion of beneficial management practices in agriculture; and
- assessing and fostering development of renewable energy generation (biomass, solar, wind, tidal).
Proposals will be considered based on their potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the longer term, the province noted in a release.
The fund is set up with the province’s portion of the federal Canada ecoTrust for Clean Air and Climate Change.
