City Of Prince George Wins 100k in Green Award

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 04:21 PM

Prince George- City councillor and mayoralty candidate Don Zurowski says the city of Prince George will receive about $95,000 dollars under the community Action Charter.

The city had introduced initiatives to reduce its carbon footprint Zurowski says and now will receive a grant of $95,000 dollars from the province.

The announcement came from Premier Gordon Campbell at the Union of BC Municipal convention in Penticton, and will affect about 130 cities and towns in the province who have signed onto the program.

At the same time Zurowski says the city has been awarded $100,000 dollars for the green cities award in the province. Prince George had been in the running with Kamloops and North Vancouver for the award.

The City of Prince George says Zurowski has led the way in items such as sewer treatment, voluntary water meter reading, and bio diesel for the cities bus fleet along with increased use of city buses to reduce traffic.

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Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 04:21 PM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: lostfaith on September 24 2008 4:55 PM

Isn't that nice of them to transfer our tax dollars all over the province and call it grants.
Makes it sound like it was free money that was found lying on the ground.

Posted by: He speaks on September 24 2008 6:55 PM

How about actually put the money in the bank, so that we can enjoy it in the future.

Posted by: astro on September 24 2008 8:20 PM

Early electioneering giveaways.

Posted by: acrider54 on September 25 2008 5:55 AM

Election coming up.

Posted by: duffer on September 25 2008 3:47 PM

Don Z. seems to be making a lot of the "feel good" announcements lately. Is the mayor trying to make one of the mayoral candidates look better by letting him do this?