Oak Bay aims to capture and reuse arena heat with a $668,069 grant from the Federal Gas Tax Strategic Priorities program announced today (March 9).

Like the rest of BC, Oak Bay committed in 2007 to reducing GHG emissions by 33 per cent by 2020. This would enable the district to reach the target a year early.

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The Oak Bay energy loop project includes installing a heat transfer system to capture waste heat generated by the arenaB次元官网网址檚 refrigeration system, using it to heat other areas of the recreation centre.

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Oak Bay was awarded $324,958 for the Uplands Combined Sewer Separation Project and $1,150,172 for the completion of the Henderson Water Main Project last March. The Uplands funding will go toward detailed design work. The Henderson Water Main Project will provide redundancy for the provision of water to Oak Bay.

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The project is expected to reduce the facilitates GHG emissions by 154.5 tonnes of CO2 per year, about an 81.3 per cent reduction and 14.2 per cent reduction for Oak Bay as a whole according to the district.

To date the district has lowered emissions by 30.7 per cent.

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