Environmental and Sustainability Policy Advisory Committee

THAT Committee APPROVE the proposal and move into PHASE TWO of the project.

3 THAT the 2021 Workplan/Budget BE APPROVED.

THAT the Environmental and Sustainability Policy Advisory Committee STRONGLY ENDORSE the following resolution: WHEREAS the Government of Ontario is planning to increase reliance on gas- fired electricity generation from Ontario’s gas-fired power plants, which is anticipated to increase greenhouse gas pollution by more than 300% by 2025 and by more than 400% by 2040, reversing more than a third of the greenhouse gas pollution reductions achieved by phasing out our coal-fired power plants; and Whereas greenhouse gas pollution is causing temperatures in Canada to rise at more than double the rate of the rest of the world, causing impacts to municipal operations and affecting residents of the City of Brantford; and WHEREAS the City of Brantford declared a Climate Emergency and Imperative Climate Action in 2019 and approved a Corporate Climate Change Action Plan in 2020 committing to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050; and WHEREAS a major component of the City’s Climate Change Action Plan is to shift the energy consumption away from fossil fuels and onto low carbon Ontario electricity. If electricity produces more greenhouse gas emissions than anticipated the City will have to compensate through other more costly measures to reach its goals; and WHERAS there are feasible, cost-effective alternatives to increasing gas-fired electricity generation without increasing greenhouse gas pollution at costs well below the current price for Ontario’s nuclear energy (9.5¢/kWh), includ

THAT the following meeting dates BE APPROVED: March 25 April 22 May 27 June 24 July 22 August 26 September 23 October 28 November 25 December 23

THAT the following minutes BE APPROVED: 5.2.1 Environmental and Sustainability Policy Advisory Committee - January 28, 2021 5 5.2.2 Environmental and Sustainability Policy Advisory Committee – November 26, 2020