Harper Government announces energy innovation projects in Canada’s North

In Canada, Ryan Leef, Member of Parliament for Yukon, announced that the Government of Canada will invest over $2 million in two innovative clean energy projects in Canada’s North. The first project announced is Champagne and Aishihik First Nations pursuit of a study of a potential power generation plant fed by biomass in Haines Junction, Yukon. The second project announced was $1,662,154 to Qulliq Energy of Iqaluit to build the first smart grid system in the Arctic, in some of the harshest environmental conditions in the world.