Altona town council will be consulting with local citizens soon to get their thoughts on how the town can reduce its carbon footprint.

Eco-West conducted a study of the town's operations to determine how much greenhouse gas it was generating and then came up with some ideas on how the community could reduce those emissions.

Altona CAO Dan Gagne says that study provided some recommendations for the town to follow up on.

"For instance, it could involve installing electric vehicle charging stations, or something as simple as expanding our compost program, or developing policies on the kinds of trees and plants that we introduce in the community."

Eco-West`s mandate is to help foster the growth and prosperity of Western Canada`s municipalities through the planning and implementation of a green economy infrastructure. It is currently working with communities to create greenhouse gas emissions inventories and develop a local Climate change action plan.

The organization has been helping Altona through this process and is preparing to survey local ratepayers on what they feel the town's environmental priorities should be moving forward.

"It's important that the final report reflects what the community wants because you can't set targets that are not in harmony with what the community is prepared to do. We want to try and stretch some of those targets, but not to a point where it's unrealistic," said Gagne.

The survey is expected to be conducted later this year