Federal grants will help the Field house project mitigate future climate change issues and help the City market stick around longer.
A million dollar grant from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities is for a large-scale energy retrofit at the market and it includes incorporating renewable and energy efficiency technologies and will result in a 73 per cent reduction on greenhouse gas emissions.
$2.8 million in green infrastructure grants will be given to this region through the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. $1 million goes towards energy upgrades at the City Market and more than $1.6 million to the Field House project so it can adapt to increased flooding. pic.twitter.com/GoHAj9NL5z
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Samir Yammine is the Manager of Asset and Energy Management for the City of Saint John and he tells CHSJ News they hope to do this again.
“We are hoping to use some of the measures implemented here on other building and it could be Aquatic centre or the Transit building and I would like to see it used on a community project,” Yammine says.
Bill MacMackin says the Field House project will support the stormwater controls at their site noting that any new development in Glen Falls can’t negatively impact the houses or any other flood conditions.
