Manitoba Climate Change Community Challenges Projects

City of Brandon

The City of Brandon intends to achieve the vision of Leading by Example through sustainable economic success while being environmentally conscious and responsible in its programs. Brandon has the opportunity to become a Model Community to recognize, celebrate and demonstrate sustainable community development, based on specialized projects in five basic categories:

• solid waste management,
• safe water and waste consumption,
• alternative energies,
• household conservation, and
• waste conversion development.

Peguis First Nation

Peguis First Nation will pursue the following key avenues:

• introduce GHG emission reduction technology through geothermal heating/cooling in community infrastructure. Partnership opportunities exist with Manitoba Hydro and Sioux Valley First Nation;
• train, in collaboration with Natural Resources Canada, 15 individuals in R2000 construction for new homes and also utilize EnerGuide initiatives to retrofit and upgrade existing housing stock to improve energy efficiency in those homes; and
• establish regional landfill/recycling for Peguis First Nation.

North Central Development

North Central Development provides services to 17 communities in Northern Manitoba, encompassing an area of 138,000 square kilometres and a population of approximately 35,000 people. Its focus is on reducing waste in landfill sites, reusing waste heat and fish offal, recycling household waste and rethinking how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The key areas of action are:

• fish offal composting - replicating in other communities the successful Wabowden Fish Composting Program, which produced composted soil from fish offal and sawdust;
• community greenhouses - growing vegetables in greenhouses using residual heat, a byproduct of operating diesel generators; and
• diversion of waste from landfills, increasing recycling and expanding the life of landfill sites.

Morden/Winkler

Morden and Winkler will focus on the following key areas:

• updating municipal infrastructures to make them greenhouse gas emission friendly;
• developing a community energy efficiency and emissions reduction initiative; and
• creating four local teams to research, monitor and promote environmental initiatives (green, building, transportation and communication teams).