Vehicle Emissions

By Cheryl Jahn

Climate Change Efforts Need work

City moves ahead with carbon reduction plan

May 22, 2019 | 3:18 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – The City of Prince George, as a corporation, is moving in the right direction with its Climate Change Strategy, but the same cannot be said of the community at large.

The Supervisor of Energy, Environment and Sustainability Josh Kelly says the City has taken measures to reduce its Greenhouse Gas Emissions by retrofitting older civic facilities, switching out their fleet to accommodate electric vehicles and building new facilities to more stringent environmental standards.

But industry and vehicle emissions mean there is barely a dent in the overall community levels. In 2016, 560-thousand tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions were released, 480-thousand of which came from the four largest industries that same year.

But Kelly says the silver lining is that emission levels haven’t gone up.

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“I think that’s the story is that we haven’t increased. There hasn’t been a huge growth in population from the statistics data but, generally, the more people, the more greenhouse gas emissions you’d see,” he says. “So staying relatively steady is kind of a good thing.”

The City will be embarking on an education campaign to get people more aware of what they can do. But he believes with newer homes being much more energy-efficient, the numbers may start to trend downward.