Partnership Development Project (Rolling River First Nation, Keeseekoowenin Ojibway First Nation, Municipality of Clanwilliam Erickson, and Riding Mountain National Park)
- Location: Rolling River First Nation, Keeseekoowenin Ojibway First Nation, Municipality of Clanwilliam Erickson and Riding Mountain National Park
- Project Partners: Rolling River First Nation, Keeseekoowenin Ojibway First Nation, Municipality of Clanwilliam Erickson, Riding Mountain National Park, Indigenous Services Canada and the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources
Project Description
Funded by Indigenous Services Canada, the Waste Management Partnership Development Program (PDP) is an interactive capacity-building program focused on building positive relationships and establishing partnerships between First Nations and their neighbouring municipalities to support improved solid waste management. PDP establishes joint working groups between First Nations and Municipal governments and provides neutral third-party facilitation of those meetings to assist in the regionalization of solid waste management in Manitoba. A key method of achieving this is at the community-level is through the development of mutually-beneficial long-term solid waste service agreements between First Nations and neighbouring municipalities.
Over the past several years a group of partners: the Municipality of Clanwilliam-Erickson, Rolling River and Keeseekowenin First Nations, and Riding Mountain National Park have been exploring ways to consolidate waste management in the region and maximize the cost efficiencies for each community.
There are many reasons to pursue this partnership. The Manitoba government updated its landfill regulations in 2016 that resulted in making the management of landfills much more complex and costly. The recent amalgamation of municipalities has mixed different landfill management philosophies together, which is very inefficient in the management of diversion products. The Federal government has expressed a desire to have landfills moved off of First Nations reserve land, and First Nation communities recognize that regulations and enforcement on reserves has been inadequate and may result in impacts to the environment. Existing landfills have been identified as a major contributor to greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change, landfills will be targeted as part of the federal climate change mitigation plan.
Funded by Indigenous Services Canada, the Waste Management Partnership Development Program (PDP) is an interactive capacity-building program focused on building positive relationships and establishing partnerships between First Nations and their neighbouring municipalities to support improved solid waste management. PDP establishes joint working groups between First Nations and Municipal governments and provides neutral third-party facilitation of those meetings to assist in the regionalization of solid waste management in Manitoba. A key method of achieving this is at the community-level is through the development of mutually-beneficial long-term solid waste service agreements between First Nations and neighbouring municipalities.
Over the past several years a group of partners: the Municipality of Clanwilliam-Erickson, Rolling River and Keeseekowenin First Nations, and Riding Mountain National Park have been exploring ways to consolidate waste management in the region and maximize the cost efficiencies for each community.
There are many reasons to pursue this partnership. The Manitoba government updated its landfill regulations in 2016 that resulted in making the management of landfills much more complex and costly. The recent amalgamation of municipalities has mixed different landfill management philosophies together, which is very inefficient in the management of diversion products. The Federal government has expressed a desire to have landfills moved off of First Nations reserve land, and First Nation communities recognize that regulations and enforcement on reserves has been inadequate and may result in impacts to the environment. Existing landfills have been identified as a major contributor to greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change, landfills will be targeted as part of the federal climate change mitigation plan.
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