Critics pan city's 'inadequate' environment budget

By Joanne Chianello, CBC News Ottawa, November 21, 2017

After three hours of debate and a close vote on reallocating money for two staff members dedicated to the city's greenhouse gas reduction plan, the environment committee approved its portion of the the 2018 draft budget without change Tuesday.

A number of public delegations addressed the committee Tuesday morning and accused the city of underfunding its own environmental priorities.

(...)"What we see with the 2018 budget is that it continues a trend of under-investment on this specific initiative," Robb Barnes of Ecology Ottawa told the committee.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/environment-committee-2018-budget-energy-evolution-1.4412022

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