Nova Scotia announces $140 million over four years in home heating assistance
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It’s still unclear how much of that federal money will go to Nova Scotia, although the province is also getting about $60 million in heating assistance from a separate $250-million federal envelope. About 30 per cent of homes in Atlantic Canada use oil for heating, including nearly half of Nova Scotia’s 400,000 households.“The sooner we help people move away from oil the sooner they’ll be saving money and lowering their energy costs and emissions,” Rushton told reporters.
He said $10 million of the provincial funding envelope will be used to process applications this winter, with allocations of $43.3 million to follow over the next three fiscal years. About 30 per cent of the funding is to go to the heat-pump program. Low-income households can immediately apply to the province’s HomeWarming program for free heat pumps, while all Nova Scotians can apply for a range of energy efficiency upgrades.
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