FCM Green Municipal Fund — $175m for South Downtown Lands enviro investigation

FCM PRESS RELEASE The Honourable Greg Rickford, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources and Minister for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario, and Brad Woodside, President of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) and Mayor of the City of Fredericton, New Brunswick, today announced a Green Municipal Fund™ (GMF) grant of $175,000 for the City of Nanaimo. The City used the funding to supplement a complex environmental investigation at 1 Port Drive, a City-owned 10.8-hectare brownfield site, also known as the South Downtown Waterfront property. Read more: FCM - Government of Canada and FCM support Nanaimo’s study of contaminated former railyard