The provincial Rural Economic Development (RED) program has turned town the townships’ request for funding.
Chatsworth Mayor Howard Greig says they were looking for about 2.25 million dollars, which would cover about 90 percent of the project costs.
He says the Agriculture Minister indicated at a recent meeting, that the townships should look for another source of funding.
Greig says he sensed that it might have been a polite way of saying no to the funding request.
Greig says the townships will continue their search for funding for the proposed bio-digestor project.
He says the next plan of attack will be to look to the private sector.
Greig says the bio-digestor is an environmentally friendly project.
He says it will treat raw septage, bio-solids and corn stalks to produce bio-gas, electricity and treated bio-solids.
