Green with envy; Eco-friendly police station nets $8.5M grant
Green with envy; Eco-friendly police station nets $8.5M grant
Posted By Ian Elliot
Posted 7 hours ago
Kingston's new police station got a low-interest, $8.5-million grant from the federal government for energy efficiency yesterday, opening the door for the new downtown arena to also benefit from the government's green strategy.
The new Division Street headquarters, billed as the greenest police headquarters in Canada, was rewarded yesterday with a loan covering almost a quarter of the construction cost of $34.4 million.
The money came from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, which administers the fund on behalf of the federal government. The purpose of the fund is to reward environmentally friendly initiatives by towns and cities.
The Kingston grant was the largest of four announced for eastern Ontario yesterday by Leeds-Grenville MP Gord Brown, who was representing federal Environment Minister John Baird.
Since KCAL seems to dream up most of their Crystal Ball predictions...it looks like it maybe highly likely the LVEC will receive a grant for its LEED building - that will help off set any costs related to the building - along with promoting Kingston (and the naming rights) on the building as a national example of what we are doing in this city to make it both enviromentally responsible & open for business and entertainment expansion!
WHO KNEW?
Certainly NOT KCAL!
Posted By Ian Elliot
Posted 7 hours ago
Kingston's new police station got a low-interest, $8.5-million grant from the federal government for energy efficiency yesterday, opening the door for the new downtown arena to also benefit from the government's green strategy.
The new Division Street headquarters, billed as the greenest police headquarters in Canada, was rewarded yesterday with a loan covering almost a quarter of the construction cost of $34.4 million.
The money came from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, which administers the fund on behalf of the federal government. The purpose of the fund is to reward environmentally friendly initiatives by towns and cities.
The Kingston grant was the largest of four announced for eastern Ontario yesterday by Leeds-Grenville MP Gord Brown, who was representing federal Environment Minister John Baird.
Since KCAL seems to dream up most of their Crystal Ball predictions...it looks like it maybe highly likely the LVEC will receive a grant for its LEED building - that will help off set any costs related to the building - along with promoting Kingston (and the naming rights) on the building as a national example of what we are doing in this city to make it both enviromentally responsible & open for business and entertainment expansion!
WHO KNEW?
Certainly NOT KCAL!
posted by LVEC EDUCATED at 1:21 p.m.
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