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By Katie Tower, Staff Reporter, Sackville Tribune-Post

The planning stage is over and now it’s time to start taking action.

A list of top priorities was established last month during the wrap-up session for the Tantramar 2040 sustainability plan — recommendations that will help get the ball rolling on some of the initiatives that will be a part of the long-term vision for the region.

“We wanted to set priorities from what we’ve already done (at previous workshops) so that we could get people working on things, to get things off the ground,” said Katie Friars, Tantramar 2040 coordinator and executive director of EOS Eco-Energy.

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By Katie Tower, Staff Reporter, Sackville Tribune-Post

Keep the word teamwork in mind.  That’s what will be required over the next few months as the balls gets rolling on a regional sustainability plan that will determine how communities throughout Tantramar can collaborate to tackle significant challenges over the next 30 years.

The process got under way last month when partners were brought together to brainstorm their ideas during a workshop, hosted by EOS Eco-Energy Inc. and the local planning commission, entitled Tantramar 2040: Issues and Opportunities.

The workshop was the first in a series of workshops that aimed to identify and prioritize regional issues, a first step towards developing an action plan based on those concerns.

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David Caron, L’Étoile

Deux ans après l’adoption de son Plan vert, le Village de Memramcook ne cesse de progresser vers un avenir plus respectueux de l’environnement. Récemment, il a été annoncé que la municipalité s’associera avec l’entreprise EOS Éco-Énergie pour ainsi emboîter le pas à trois autres communautés du sud du Nouveau-Brunswick affin d’encourager le développement durable.

Baptisée Tantramar 2040, l’initiative se veut une coopération régionale entre les collectivités participantes: Port Elgin, Sackville, Dorchester, et finalement Memramcook. D’après Guy Gautreau, porte-parole francophone du projet, il s’agit d’une manière pour la région du Tantramar d’affronter des enjeux communs et de s’adapter aux défis liés aux changements climatiques.

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About 40 Tantramar residents participated in the second Tantramar 2040 workshop ‘Focusing on Priorities’ last month at the Swisscot Tea Rooms in Dorchester.

Facilitated by EOS Eco-Energy and the Tantramar Planning District Commission, participants took part in discussions on eight topics that were identified as regional priorities.

The priority topics were developed through input from the first workshop (held in September) and refined with help from the Tantramar 2040 steering committee and a review of ongoing sustainability planning and green planning initiatives in the participating communities.

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