Seven years ago, in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest on the Central Coast of British Columbia, we began our first community-wide home energy retrofit project with the Haíłzaqv Nation. Since then, Ecotrust Canada’s Community Energy program has grown its team and partnerships in this critical work — to advance energy justice and climate resilience in homes in Indigenous communities. Before heat pumps were in the headlines or advertised on highway signs, Graham Anderson, our Director of Community Energy, was travelling the Interior of BC in St’át’imc territory, where he met an Elder from a remote Indigenous community. The Elder was on his way to Lillooet to pay his BC Hydro bill, shockingly $1,000 for only two months of ...
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