Canada To Build Hydrogen Super Highway - 3/15/07

British Columbia is to receive $199.3 million, as part of a new Canada ecoTrust to support provincial projects that will result in real reductions in greenhouse air pollutants and gas emissions.

BC’s funding under the Canada ecoTrust is intended to support projects consistent with BC’s plan to reduce carbon and greenhouse gas emissions by 33% from current levels by 2020, roughly 23 million tons of carbon dioxide or equivalent below current levels. The government of British Columbia has indicated that it will use the Canada ecoTrust funding to move forward on several provincial projects, which could include:

• Extracting energy from sawmill scrap and wood infested with pine beetles;
• Providing clean electricity to remote rural areas now fuelled by dirty diesel, such as electrification of Highway 37.
• Support for the development of a “hydrogen highway” a network of hydrogen fuelling stations for fuel celled buses and vehicles.
• Support for new geothermal and bio-energy projects, including the capture of bio-gas from landfill sites.

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