Arctic Power Champions Come Collectively to Be taught and Share Experience on Renewable Power within the North

WHITEHORSE, YT, Jan. 13, 2023 /CNW/ – The Authorities of Canada is dedicated to working in collaboration with Indigenous and northern companions to deal with local weather change, speed up the transition to wash power and create impactful and native financial alternatives within the North and Arctic.

From January 15 to 21, eleven power champions will meet in Whitehorse, Yukon, to amass new expertise, construct collaboration networks, go to tasks in Previous Crow and Teslin, and share experience on the combination of renewable power sources for distant Arctic communities. Their objective is to achieve the data, instruments and networks wanted to develop their very own clear power tasks of their communities to make sure a greener, cleaner and extra affluent area.

The Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Pure Sources, and the Honourable Dan Vandal, Minister of Northern Affairs, PrairiesCan, CanNor and Polar Data Canada, at this time congratulated Gwich’in Council Worldwide and Polar Data Canada on the profitable supply and planning of ARENA II to this point.

That is the second cohort of the Arctic Distant Power Networks Academy (ARENA), a novel circumpolar knowledge-sharing program combining group website visits with participant data exchanges, displays, demonstrations and mentorship. The target of this system is to attach rising power champions and supply expertise, data and networks to develop clear power tasks in their very own communities or areas. Moreover, this system goals to enhance group power resilience, allow sustainability in Arctic power growth and obtain steadiness between financial viability, power safety and environmental and public well being considerations within the circumpolar Arctic area.

Constructing on the success of the preliminary program, and after delays because of COVID-19, the second cohort started the ARENA II program in 2022. Classes have been held in Fairbanks and Kotzebue, Alaska, in July, and in Reykjavík, Iceland, in October. They are going to reconvene in Whitehorse this weekend for the ultimate periods of this system.

Indigenous and Arctic management within the clear power sector and in distant northern communities by way of ARENA has been profitable partly to a mixed contribution of over $281,000 from the Authorities of Canada for the design and supply of ARENA II.

This funding demonstrates the Authorities of Canada’s dedication to significant participation, possession and decision-making by Indigenous Peoples in pure useful resource growth as they increase modern clear power options to displace fossil fuels, advance self-determination and fight local weather change.

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“Indigenous and Northern communities are on the forefront of the struggle in opposition to local weather change. I wish to congratulate the 11 power champions collaborating in ARENA II, who’re working to deploy clear power and develop native options. The Authorities of Canada is happy to assist this necessary work.”

The Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson 
Minister of Pure Sources Canada

“Our authorities is proud to assist clear power tasks throughout the North and Arctic. Transformational initiatives just like the Arctic Distant Power Networks Academy program will assist Canada meet its local weather targets and, extra importantly, function the muse for resilient and thriving northern communities. By reuniting rising power champions from totally different areas of the circumpolar North, this initiative nurtures scientific collaboration and brings constructive outcomes for a greener and extra affluent area.”

The Honourable Dan Vandal 
Minister of Northern Affairs, PrairiesCan, CanNor and Polar Data Canada

“Gwich’in Council Worldwide is happy to co-lead this venture as a pathway to power self-sufficiency and sovereignty and to work in partnership with Canada to ship the on-site within the Yukon. Power is linked to economies, housing, meals safety, well being, self-sufficiency and sovereignty. We’d like methods to deal with excessive power prices, lack of infrastructure and dependence on diesel. Arctic communities are on the forefront of local weather change but in addition on the forefront of innovation, and ARENA goals to share and apply this experience.”

Devlin Fernandes 
Government Director, Gwich’in Council Worldwide

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• Pure Sources Canada supplied $199,572 in funding from Clear Power for Rural and Distant Communities (CERRC), a $453-million program that strives to scale back reliance on diesel in rural and distant communities by deploying and demonstrating renewable power tasks, encouraging power effectivity and constructing native expertise and capability. This system is a part of the federal government’s Investing in Canada plan, a greater than $180-billion funding in public transit tasks, inexperienced infrastructure, social infrastructure, commerce and transportation routes and Canada’s rural and northern communities.
• To assist Indigenous, rural and distant communities as they transition to wash power, the Authorities of Canada has additionally created a single-window method to entry sources and power funding. Constructing on reconciliation efforts, an Indigenous Council is being fashioned that may information the programming and venture approval course of.
• Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada supplied $81,725 in funding.
• The Authorities of Canada just lately proposed 30-percent tax credit for the deployment of unpolluted know-how within the 2022 Fall Financial Assertion.
• To this point, the Northern REACHE program has invested greater than $39 million in 161 tasks throughout the North. In Nunavut, 35 tasks obtained $9.7 million in assist.
• Polar Data Canada (POLAR) is a Authorities of Canada company whose mission is to conduct world-class Arctic analysis, advance data of the Canadian Arctic and strengthen Canadian management in polar science and know-how. POLAR has a novel function to advance our collective understanding of polar environments by mobilizing present data produced by others, in a significant and accessible method, to deal with the gaps and considerations of northern communities.

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For additional data: Pure Sources Canada, Media Relations, 343-292-6100, [email protected]; Keean Nembhard, Press Secretary, Workplace of the Minister of Pure Sources, 613-323-7892, [email protected]; Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, Media Relations, 819-934-2302, [email protected]; Kyle Allen, Press Secretary and Communications Advisor, Workplace of the Minister of Northern Affairs, CanNor and PrairiesCan, 819-953-1153, [email protected]; Polar Data Canada, Media Relations, 343-548-5456, [email protected]