Fort Liard resident says wood stove program recipients chosen ahead of meeting – CBC

Mar 11, 2025

Band says it was not responsible for choosing recipients

A Fort Liard, N.W.T., resident says she feels deceived over how a program to put free wood stoves in residents’ homes has unfolded.

Kathy McLeod said Acho Dene Koe First Nation members were invited in a Facebook post to attend a March 5 information session to become one of 50 people to benefit from a program installing hundreds of wood stoves.

The initiative would see 350 woodstoves, each worth $12,000, installed in southern N.W.T. homes in the next year and a half to reduce their reliance on fossil fuel heating.

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