The Bruce Peninsula Biosphere Association is receiving over $474,000 in provincial funding in an effort to protect the Great Lakes.
Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound Rick Byers MPP Rick Byers and MPP for Huron-Bruce Lisa Thompson announced the grant dollars in a statement this week.
They say the funding going to the association is part of a $6 million investment to support 30 multi-year projects to help protect, conserve and restore the Great Lakes, including Lake Huron, Eastern Georgian Bay and Huron-Bruce.
The investments aim to help reduce plastic litter, excess nutrients and road salt entering lakes, rivers and streams, advance climate resiliency, and make progress on restoring environmentally degraded areas of the Great Lakes.
These projects are led by community groups, not-for-profits, conservation authorities, universities and Indigenous organizations, as well as communities across the province.
Byers says, “this group of projects around the Lake Huron-Georgian Bay basin will help to enhance water quality and aquatic habitats, restore streams and a wetland, increase biodiversity, remove plastic waste and engage local First Nation communities to improve the ecosystem health of the Great Lakes.”
This funding is part of an overall Great Lakes Program, which the Ontario government invests $14 million annually in to further protect, conserve and restore the health of the Great Lakes and support the well-being of communities which rely on them.
