{"id":16609,"date":"2023-05-05T22:29:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T05:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/as-cities-recover-from-flooding-quebec-premier-warns-not-enough-money-to-go-around\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T22:29:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T05:29:16","slug":"as-cities-recover-from-flooding-quebec-premier-warns-not-enough-money-to-go-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/as-cities-recover-from-flooding-quebec-premier-warns-not-enough-money-to-go-around\/","title":{"rendered":"As cities recover from flooding, Quebec premier warns not enough money to go around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/files\/membership-default-internal\/\" class=\"memberhide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/20220718_175041000_iOS.jpg\" alt=\"-\"><\/a><br\/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MONTREAL \u2014 Quebec Premier Francois Legault says the province doesn\u2019t have enough money to satisfy all the demands from cities for climate change-related projects.<\/p>\n<p>Legault made the comments as cities and towns across the province clean up after severe\u00a0flooding\u00a0washed out roads and cut off communities from basic services.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec municipalities are asking for $2 billion in new money over five years to deal with climate adaptation, noting each dollar invested now will save taxpayers in the long term.<\/p>\n<p>But Legault told an annual meeting of municipal leaders that his government has already committed $1.4 billion for climate change adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>He says Environment Minister Benoit Charette will soon announce $500 million in new money to help cities adapt to the changing climate.<\/p>\n<p>About 100 municipalities have been affected by recent bouts of heavy rain, with about 1,000 homes flooded and 3,000 cut off by water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a9 2023 The Canadian Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- News - Bottom -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8320848692\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada.constructconnect.com\/dcn\/news\/government\/2023\/05\/as-cities-recover-from-flooding-quebec-premier-warns-not-enough-money-to-go-around\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2014 Quebec Premier Francois Legault says the province doesn\u2019t have enough money to satisfy all the demands from cities &#8230; <a title=\"As cities recover from flooding, Quebec premier warns not enough money to go around\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/as-cities-recover-from-flooding-quebec-premier-warns-not-enough-money-to-go-around\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about As cities recover from flooding, Quebec premier warns not enough money to go around\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037],"tags":[357,295],"class_list":["post-16609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-commercial-news","tag-blog","tag-technology","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}