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Energy-saving programs lose funding CBC News \|\| May 08, 2006 [KDR: I wonder if this has something to do with Harper's oil ties?] Department of Finance officials are confirming that a whole new list of environmental programs are losing their funding as a result of this week's federal budget. Among the best known is the Energuide program, in which Canadians who have their homes renovated to save energy can qualify for a federal grant of several thousand dollars. About 300,000 people have used the program since its start in the late 1990s. A home retrofitted under the program cuts its energy use by an average of 30 per cent. Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com But Energuide has had its budget slashed by $227 million over the next five years. Groups that run the program say it will be a shadow of its former self and a lot fewer people will be able to take advantage of it There's also a similar Energuide program for low-income households. Its entire budget of more than $550 million is cut, meaning that program is now gone. Four other environmental programs have lost most, or all, of their funding. They include everything from money to develop new kinds of renewable energy, to a program to help people switch to more efficient furnaces. The cuts add up to just under $1 billion over the next five years. The federal departments that run the programs have refused to comment. They simply say the government is developing its own environmental plan, which will be announced later this year. About KDR \| \| Home \| \| Weekly Features Archive	Weekly Weekly Features Archive
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Energy-saving programs lose funding

CBC News || May 08, 2006

[KDR: I wonder if this has something to do with Harper's oil ties?]

Department of Finance officials are confirming that a whole new list of environmental programs are losing their funding as a result of this week's federal budget.

Among the best known is the Energuide program, in which Canadians who have their homes renovated to save energy can qualify for a federal grant of several thousand dollars.

About 300,000 people have used the program since its start in the late 1990s.

A home retrofitted under the program cuts its energy use by an average of 30 per cent.

Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com

But Energuide has had its budget slashed by $227 million over the next five years. Groups that run the program say it will be a shadow of its former self and a lot fewer people will be able to take advantage of it

There's also a similar Energuide program for low-income households. Its entire budget of more than $550 million is cut, meaning that program is now gone.

Four other environmental programs have lost most, or all, of their funding. They include everything from money to develop new kinds of renewable energy, to a program to help people switch to more efficient furnaces.

The cuts add up to just under $1 billion over the next five years.

The federal departments that run the programs have refused to comment. They simply say the government is developing its own environmental plan, which will be announced later this year.

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