Shannon Phillips boasts properous year; believes new investments will unlock Lethbridge’s potential
LETHBRIDGE – According to Lethbridge West MLA and Alberta’s Minister of Environment and Parks Shannon Phillips, 2016 was a big year of investment in the city, as well as climate leadership across the province.
Her focus throughout the year was set on the province-wide carbon levy program that comes in to effect January 1, huge investments at the University of Lethbridge and more recently from Cavendish Farms, and both the Alberta jobs and climate leadership plans.
“Alberta’s jobs plan really put forward a number of different pillars. One was to invest in infrastructure now while people are out of work. That put people to work and families to work right here in Lethbridge, and we’re really proud of that.
“Then we put the business climate in place. We’re an attractive place to invest and we saw that with the announcement of the Cavendish Farms investment,” she continued. “Economic Development Lethbridge has had more than double the number of inquiries this year than they had last year. Lethbridge is really well positioned to grow and prosper.”