Feedback from the public town hall organized by NGOs to talk about Manitoba’s Climate and Green Discussion Paper

On November 28, 2017, a public town hall meeting to talk about Manitoba’s Climate and Green Discussion Paper was hosted by Green Action Centre, Wilderness Committee, Climate Change Connection, Manitoba Eco-Network, Manitoba Wildlands, Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition, and Prairie Climate Centre.

After brief presentations, attendees broke out into roundtable discussions based on the four pillars the Manitoba government is looking at: Climate, Water, Nature, and Jobs. We recorded notes as conversations ensued at each table, in order to submit feedback to government on this discussion paper.

To further engage the public in a “dot-mocracy” exercise, attendees were each given 6 sticker dots. Posted on the walls of the room were all 109 proposals and commitments presented in the discussion paper, sorted by pillar: water, climate, nature and jobs. Attendees were asked to put a sticker beside the top proposals that they supported. Here are the actual posters (water, climate, nature and jobs) from the wall, and a summary of the top proposals in each pillar (water, climate, nature and jobs).

To hear more about the environmental activities from these organizations, please follow these links:

Green Action Centre is Manitoba's Green Living Hub. Subscribe to our Living Green monthly newsletter for up to date information on active transportation, waste reduction and other environmental issues. Interested in learning more about our detailed review of the Manitoba Climate and Green Plan? We invite you to review our formal response to the province here.

To access more green news, events, opportunities in Winnipeg's environmental community visit the Manitoba Eco-Network's website or sign up for our regular E-Bulletin.

To better understand why putting a price on carbon pollution is important, and how it works visit the carbon pricing section of Climate Change Connection's webpage.

To keep up to date on water issues within the province, please visit us at the Manitoba Eco-Network Water Caucus.

Right now, the Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition is working on two important issues, stopping Line 3 and working with communities impacted by hydro developments. If you would like to get involved with the campaign work please email campaigns@mbenergyjustice.org and we'll invite you to our upcoming meetings. These are huge fights and we need all the help we can get.
 

Thank you for coming to our community town hall on Manitoba’s Climate and Green Discussion Paper. 

As promised, we’ve compiled the feedback from attendees, which you can find posted online here, (and there are direct links further down) but your work is not done yet!

We want you to keep informed of the happenings within the environmental community. Please visit these links to sign up with the individual organizations.

The government is accepting comment on the Climate and Green Discussion Paper until December 22. You can submit a comment through the government’s website here.

The Wilderness Committee works on protecting wild spaces, wild species, and fostering healthy communities. To keep abreast of our work sign up for emails here.

You can also read our brief analysis of the plan here or use our letter writing tool to send feedback to the government.