Infrastructure & Energy

Making new choices to transform our community

We're Exploring Alternative and Affordable Solutions

From renewable energy and green construction to electric vehicles and socially responsible investment, we can all take steps to make Orillia a more sustainable community.

We're Focusing On

Electrification of vehicles
Active transportation technologies and behaviours to reduce GHG emissions
Solar, wind and other renewable energy
Energy storage and distribution
Energy conservation and reduction policies and technologies
Green affordable housing including retrofitting old stock and net zero new
Achieving sustainability of development by promoting balance between financial capital and associated natural capital
Eco-footprint of development including promoting densification of new development, building and operations
Socially responsible investment

Sector Chair and Vice Chair: Transportation & Energy – Dave VanAlstyne
Acting Vice Chair: Energy – Tim Adamson
Vice Chair: Housing – Mike Jones
Vice Chair: Development – Sophie Mathewson
Vice Chair: Investment – Jackie Ramler

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Clean Energy Canada

April 5, 2021

Clean Energy Canada is a climate and clean energy program within the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. They work to

Rustic cottage that feels like a spaceship is environmentally sustainable

March 1, 2021

By Nathan Taylor – Orillia Matters A local attraction that has been around for more than a century has an ambitious plan for the future. YMCA

About Electric Vehicles: Trends, Pros and Cons

August 14, 2020

by Stan Mathewson, EV owner Recent developments in battery technologies and manufacturing, along with state and federal incentives, are helping transform electric vehicles (EVs) —cars

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