Energy Strategies - Manitoba
Ministry of Energy
Manitoba Innovation, Energy and Mines
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Documents
Beyond Kyoto: Manitoba’s Green Future
Manitoba Overview
Like several other provinces, Manitoba’s climate change action plan is currently its most analogous document to an energy strategy. Released in April 2008, Beyond Kyoto: Manitoba's Green Future is a mixture of existing government actions, such as Manitoba Hydro’s Power Smart programs related to energy efficiency, and “next steps to 2012 and beyond.” Actions listed under these “next steps” include Green Building Policy that requires buildings to be certified at a minimum LEED® Silver standard by the CaGBC, funding research into solar power and erecting wind monitoring towers in off-grid, diesel-serviced communities.
The plan also includes a goal for the province of becoming coal-free (98 per cent of the province’s electricity is already generated using hydro power). The document makes few substantial references to oil or natural gas except to mention requiring minimum efficiency standards for natural gas furnaces by 2009 and the pilot project to evaluate the feasibility of injecting CO2 into Manitoba oil pools.
Though Beyond Kyoto doesn’t explicitly list any overarching objectives, its sections (“energy,” “transportation,” “agriculture,” “municipalities,” “business opportunities,” “government,” “adapting to climate change” and “individuals”) provide some clues toward the province’s priorities, which in turn correspond to the ten common thematic elements seen across provincial and territorial energy strategies.
The province’s current energy programs include the Manitoba Geothermal Energy Incentive Program, and proposed changes to its Biofuels Act would replace the fuel-tax exemption for Manitoba biodiesel with a grant payable directly to producers — 14 cents per litre. Manitoba also currently requires a two per cent biodiesel blend with diesel.
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