On January 30, 2017, Ontario's Minister of Infrastructure announced that the Province will provide $100
million for a Natural Gas Grant Program. The stated purpose of the
program is to support the building of new natural gas
infrastructure for communities without service, including those in
rural and Northern Ontario and First Nations communities.
The news release announcing the Natural Gas Grant
Program does not provide any details about how the $100 million
will be allocated (nor when), but it does state that applications
will be accepted starting in spring 2017. Presumably, the creation
of the Natural Gas Grant Program is an affirmation of the Ontario
Government's commitments made in 2014 and 2015 to provide
access to funding to expand access to affordable supplies of
natural gas to all Ontarians (discussed in an earlier
post). The Natural Gas Grant Program appears to expand the
amount of grant funding to be provided from the
previously-announced $30 million to
