News release

Businesses, Municipalities Get Clean Air Funding

Environment (April 2008 - Feb. 2021)

NOTE: A complete list of projects to receive funding follows.


Twenty-one Nova Scotian businesses and municipalities will receive a total of $728,000 for projects that will help reduce greenhouse gases and air pollutants.

The successful applicants received the financial support from the ecoNova Scotia Fund for Clean Air and Climate Change, which released its annual report today, Jan. 25. It is available at www.gov.ns.ca/ecoNovaScotia .

"We are expanding on the work that earned our province awards and attention at the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen," said Environment Minister Sterling Belliveau. "We remain committed to reducing emissions in our province to at least 10 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, while building a sustainable, green economy."

These projects are expected to reduce about 11,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases and 60,000 kilograms of major air pollutant emissions, including sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions.

The ecoNova Scotia Fund for Clean Air and Climate Change is supported by a grant of $42.5-million from the government of Canada for projects that reduce air emissions and create a cleaner, healthier environment.

The projects supported by ecoNova Scotia will further the provincial goal of reducing greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions as spelled out by the Environmental Goals and Sustainable Prosperity Act and the Climate Change Action Plan. They will also help Nova Scotia be recognized as a leader in energy efficiency and renewable energy technology.

Over its three years, ecoNova Scotia has funded 88 projects. Applications for funding will be accepted until Jan. 31. To apply for funding visit www.gov.ns.ca/econovascotia .


Projects and programs receiving funding are:

  • $232,000 to Clearwater Seafoods Ltd., which will partner with Thermal Frost, a firm developing a deep-refrigeration process using low-grade waste heat generated by freeze-at-sea fishing platforms
  • $65,000 to BioGas Energy Inc. to develop a process to capture and separate methane generated by anaerobic digestion
  • $120,000 to the Arthur Irving Academy for the Environment at Acadia University, which will carry out a community emissions challenge to inspire a reduction in personal and household air emissions
  • $74,000 to Shean Co-op of Inverness, to install a new multi-parallel compressor refrigeration system with patented heat-reclaim technology and high-speed defrost system
  • $58,000 to the Municipality of Bridgewater to upgrade 11 buildings, based on recommendations from an energy audit
  • $37,990 to the Town of Pictou to upgrade eight buildings, based on recommendations from an energy audit
  • $12,500 to the Town of Mulgrave to upgrade its public works building
  • $18,500 to the Soil and Crop Improvement Association of Nova Scotia, to work with a current GHG calculator to adapt it to the agricultural industry in Nova Scotia
  • $4,700 to the Municipality of Chester to introduce a hybrid vehicle at its solid-waste management facility
  • $3,850 to the Municipality of the District of Guysborough to replace its hot-water boiler with two high-efficiency boilers
  • $2,405 to the Town of Lockeport, which will install 13 LED lights along its harbourfront boardwalk
  • Receiving funding to conduct a Municipal Energy and Emission Inventory and Audit are: Argyle ($10,000), Barrington ($10,000), Canso ($10,000), Guysborough ($10,000), Amherst ($9,923), Colchester ($10,000), East Hants ($10,000), Port Hawkesbury ($10,000), Richmond ($10,000), and St. Marys ($10,000).