What are we Doing?
The Township of Langley is developing a Community Energy and Emissions Plan (CEEP) to clarify the community desire for action, understand specific community concerns, and identify possible actions to reduce energy and GHG emissions across the community. This is the first of many steps in addressing our community’s impact on climate change.
The Township is taking a collaborative approach to create the CEEP. We are inviting municipal staff, key stakeholders, and the general public to participate and contribute their ideas during the plan development process. The intent is to create a CEEP with broad community support that reflects the community’s expressed values, needs, and aspirations.
Key events:
- Township of Langley staff workshop on opportunities and challenges to reduce GHG emissions and define short and long term goals for the plan
- stakeholder advisory committee meetings
- community workshop to learn more about the CEEP, discuss opportunities and challenges to reduce GHG emissions, and define short and long term goals for the plan
- project team meetings to set emission targets and recommend policy and actions
- community open house to review the draft plan
- project website to gather ideas to reduce energy and GHG emissions in Langley
What will be in the Plan?
The CEEP will:
- define short and long term goals for energy use, supply, and GHG emissions
- set community GHG reduction targets to measure the Township’s progress toward attaining its goals
- identify actions to achieve the GHG reduction targets
- outline an implementation strategy to ensure the plan is a success
Project Timeline and Details
The following outlines the CEEP planning process timeline and provides links to key planning results available for download.
August 2009
Project Initiation: The Sheltair Group (now Stantec), in collaboration with Halcrow Consulting, Heather Evans Consulting, and Creative B’stro are hired to lead the development of CEEP.
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September 2009
Technical Review of Langley’s energy use and inventory.
Formation of a Stakeholder Advisory Committee: The role of the Stakeholder Advisory Committee is to act on behalf of their representative group and provide consistent input to CEEP content. The committee will largely consist of local stakeholders with local interests.
Stakeholder committee member organizations include:
- Agricultural Advisory Committee (AAC)
- BC Greenhouse Growers’ Association (BCGGA)
- BC Hydro
- Economic Development Advisory Committee (EDAC)
- Fraser Health Authority (FHA)
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU)
- Langley Environmental Partners Society (LEPS)
- Metro Vancouver (MV)
- Qualico Developers
- School District #35 (SD35)
- Terasen
- Township of Langley (TOL)
- Translink
- Trinity Western University (TWU)
- UBC Design Centre for Sustainability (DCS)
- Urban Development Institute (UDI)
- Youth Advisory Committee (YAC)
Back Row (L to R): Ryan Schmidt (ToL), Jason Chu (ToL), Lyle Walker (Translink), Teresa Kaszonyi (ToL), Hugh Carter (Qualico), Carol Paulson (EDAC), Stu MacGillivray (Terasen), Nichole Marples (LEPS), Amandeep S. Bal (BCGGA), Debby Sansome (SD35).
Front Row (L to R): Isabel Budke (DCS) , Gary Jones (KPU).
Missing: Glenn Wallace (TWU), Shawn Bouchard (UDI), Ted Bowman (AAC), Andhra Azevedo (YAC), Bianca Czihaly (YAC), Robert Bradley (FHA), Jeff Carmichael (MV), Robyn Wark (BC Hydro).
Stakeholder advisory resources:
- Better Environmentally Sound Transportation
- Ministry of Agriculture
- Ministry of Environment
October to December 2009
Gathering input and action planning:
- Township of Langley staff workshop
- community workshop
- stakeholder committee meetings
- website launch
- gather energy and emission reduction ideas on the website
- begin writing CEEP
January/February 2010
Writing and reviewing the plan:
- prepare draft CEEP plan
- public open house
- finalize CEEP
