The province is now offering to buy land near buffer zones, watercourses or wetlands. The provincial government will buy land from owners at fair market price to support conservation, tree planting and/or reforestation activities through the Buffer Zone Acquisition Program. “We...
Feedback received through input from hundreds of Islanders and over 60 community, energy and environmental stakeholders about the future of energy in PEI has been compiled in this PEI Energy Blueprint - What We Heard Report.
Sandra Moore will head up the province’s Clean Tech Innovation Centre, which will be based in the new Clean Tech Park in Georgetown. The Clean Tech Innovation Centre will be PEI’s future home for clean technology innovation, business, and energy. It will also house the province’s...
Cardigan Consolidated School will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and become the province’s first net zero retrofitted school. A net zero energy (NZE) building means the total amount of energy used by the building on an annual basis is equal to the amount of renewable energy...
New recommendations on coastal policy will provide a framework for long-term coastal resilience in Prince Edward Island. The Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation at UPEI provided its Interim Coastal Policy Recommendations Report to government this week. “I...
Local experts have begun their work on advising government on matters about climate change. The ten members of the Net Zero Advisory Committee had their first meeting recently and spoke about how the local impacts of climate change are an increasingly prominent feature in each of...
The PEI Energy Blueprint Discussion Paper, developed to show the status of energy in PEI, will kick off a public engagement process to help develop an updated energy strategy for the province.
PEI’s forests are projected to capture and store between 0.04 and 0.08 megatonnes of carbon emissions per year in the coming decades with the help of PEI’s 16,000 woodlot owners, according to the latest State of Forest Report. The report covers PEI forest trends from 2010 to 2020...
Building on the work in the State of the Coast Report, the Canadian Center for Climate Change and Adaptation at UPEI has made a number of recommendations for future action and policy direction.
Work has begun on the future home of clean tech innovation and education in Prince Edward Island. The Georgetown Clean Tech Park will be a 60-acre tax-free zone for clean tech companies. The park will be a destination that attracts companies, entrepreneurs and talent, all focused...