Regina City Council passed a motion yesterday (Mon) to become a 100 per cent renewable energy city by 2050.
A spokesperson for the David Suzuki Foundation, Sherry Yano, says it’s inspiring to see the community momentum from residents who organized town halls and events, to the mayor and councilors’ leadership.
Regina is the first Saskatchewan municipality to set its sights on becoming an official “renewable city.”
Other cities that are working toward that goal include Vancouver, Victoria, Edmonton, Toronto, and Guelph.
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The Candian government wants the country’s banks to identify, in customers’ bank statements when they receive the carbon rebate, that it is labelled as such.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the lack of a clear identifier is contributing to confusion about carbon price rebates, so he is going to change the law if he has to in order to force the big banks to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits.
The first rebate deposits in 2022 were labelled very generically, which meant recipients had no idea why they were getting the money.
T-D and B-MO have adopted the government’s requested “CdaCarbonRebate” entry, R-B-C and Scotiabank say they couldn’t make the change in time for the rollout, and C-I-B-C is still calling it “Deposit Canada.”