The answer to climate change isn’t technical. Nor is it financial… …”
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The answer to climate change isn’t technical . Nor is it
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The answer to climate change isn’t technical. Nor is it financial… …”. “ Poverty Has No Causes… ”. Aki Energy is a non-profit social enterprise that works with First Nations to create employment and business opportunities through geothermal energy. . - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The answer to climate change isn’t technical. Nor is it financial……”
Aki Energy is a non-profit social enterprise that works with First Nations to create employment and business opportunities through geothermal energy.
Paying for geothermal: PowerSmart PAYS Financing
• 110 homes retrofitted • 720 PAYS eligible households in
Peguis and Fisher River.• 73 kilometres of loop installed.• 22 Band members employed.• $1,615,130 financed through
Manitoba Hydro’s PAYS program to date.
• $143,000 estimated annual utility bill reduction.
• $3 million bill reduction over 20 years.
In our first year
Green LeaseFossil Fuel Vehicle @ $25,000
Electric Vehicle
@ $40,000
OR Electric Option @$25,000
Per Month $250 lease plus $200 operating
$400 lease plus$25 operating
$250 lease plus$200 green lease!
TOTAL $450/mo $425/mo $450/mo
Homesteads in Hamiota?
Direct Fossil Fuel Expenditures - MB
($3.9 billion total expenditures)•$75 m electricity•$38 m heating fuel•$279 m machinery fuel•$621 m fertilizers•$263 m pesticides•$569 m commercial feed•Custom work, seed, etc…
Taxpayers Buy A Lot of Food!Major Food Purchasers Large Cafeterias or KitchensHospitals Health Science Centre,
Misericordia, Grace, Brandon General, Victoria, St. Boniface, Seven Oaks, Brandon General, Thompson, Winkler-Morden, Swan River…
Major Colleges and Universities Univ Manitoba, Univ Winnipeg, Brandon University, Red River College, Assiniboine College, Univ du St. Boniface…
Other Large Food Purchasers Personal Care Homes, Government Cafeterias…
300,000 meals / day
$1.50 per meal
$150 million per year
20% initially = $30 million/yr
$150-$200k revenues / yr per farm
What’s Needed?•A New Manitoba Hydro Act with New
Mandate▫Green Energy Supply
•A New Utility: “Bill Cutter” ▫Geothermal communities and
neighbourhoods▫Green vehicle lease and electric
infrastructure
•20% Taxpayer food LFP by 2016
Rather than individual change
focus on institutional change…
Gasoline Diesel Natural GasConservation Bike lanes,
walk to school, transit, city planning
Solar farms, transit, buy sustainable
Turn down heat
Efficiency Electric and/or smaller vehicles
Electric buses, articulated buses
HE Furnaces
Fuel Switching ElectricEthanol
Biodiesel, electric buses
Biomass, geothermal, solar
