Brampton is starting to feel the fallout from Doug Ford's new Progressive Conservative government's recent decision to cancel Ontario’s cap-and-trade program.

The city has confirmed a number of initiatives that were to be funded by provincial cap-and-trade revenues — including SaveONEnergy incentives for lighting retrofits, electric vehicle charging stations and grants for community energy plans — now risk cancellation.

“On July 3, 2018, the Provincial Government formally signalled the winding down of all environmental projects being funded through the cap-and-trade program," said City of Brampton media spokesperson Natalie Stogdill. “We are working to better understand what impact this will have on many of the city’s related initiatives.”

An electric bus pilot project originally scheduled to launch next year is also potentially on the chopping block.

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“On July 12, 2018, staff were officially notified by the provincial government that previously approved funding of $8.309 million to Brampton for the Pan-Canadian Electric Bus and Demonstration Trial has been cancelled as a result of the government’s elimination of the cap-and-trade program,” Stogdill said.

The city is exploring the possibility of funding at least some of these initiatives internally or with the support of other project partners in the case of the bus pilot initiative.

The PC government’s decision to axe the province's cap-and-trade scheme last week made headlines after it was revealed $100 million earmarked for school repairs was disappearing along with the program.

"We believe that this money belongs back in the pockets of people. Cancelling the cap-and-trade carbon tax will result in lower prices at the gas pump, on your home heating bills and on virtually every other product that you buy," said Ford in a July 3 statement on the government's website.

“Cap-and-trade and carbon tax schemes are no more than government cash grabs that do nothing for the environment while hitting people in the wallet in order to fund big government programs," he added.

The cap-and-trade program aimed to reduce the amount of pollution industries would emit into the atmosphere through limits or the sale of credits to exceed those limits.