Urban climate action highlights from Budget 2022
Author: TAF
Forty-two electric vehicle charging stations to be built across Durham using federal funds
DURHAM RADIO NEWS – Durham Region will be partnering with TAF to promote EV charging. TAF will be offering rebates of up to 50 per cent for municipalities, parking authorities, non-profits, residential buildings and other groups to construct new charging stations.
If you rely only on public chargers, it’s tough to own an EV
THE GLOBE AND MAIL – TAF has recently received $2-million from Natural Resources Canada to install about 300 chargers, and expects a big chunk of that will go toward installing chargers on residential streets as well as near multi-unit residential buildings (MURBs).
New federal Clean Fuel Standard headed in the wrong direction
NATIONAL OBSERVER – If Canada’s Clean Fuel Standard is to deliver climate and cleantech investment successes, it needs a higher ambition and tighter rules.
Ontario’s plan to sell ‘clean energy’ credits doesn’t wash with environmental groups
CBC- Bryan Purcell says the government’s clean energy credits proposal has fundamental flaws that undermine any environmental benefit.
Honda confirms plan to switch Ontario plant to hybrid vehicles
GLOBAL NEWS- The federal and provincial government are investing $130M each in updating Ontario’s Honda plat to produce hybrid-EVs.
TAF News: March 2022
Just a few days left to rescue Ontario’s failing building code
$500M boost for ArcelorMittal Dofasco secures future steel jobs for Hamilton, province says
CBC- Ontario’s quest to replace coal-fed coke ovens and blast furnaces with new, low-emission technology got a major boost on Tuesday, with the province contributing up to $500 million in loan and grant support to Hamilton’s ArcelorMittal Dofasco plant.
Toronto’s flagging electric-vehicle project given a jolt as council adds more on-street chargers
TORONTO STAR -“We urgently need a reliable and convenient network of on-street charging across Toronto to help speed up adoption of EVs,” Ian Klesmer, strategy and grants director at TAF
Effort to boost electric vehicle charging stations in GTHA gets $2M in new federal funding
CBC- TAF’s EV Station Fund to support up to 300 EV chargers in the GTHA
