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Millions for Energy Retrofits Announced

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:33 AM

Prince George, B.C.- The University of Northern B.C. is one of several facilities in the Prince George Region that will get some major funding for energy retrofit projects.

The Province has announced it will invest nearly $22 million on 74 projects throughout B.C. for projects in schools, colleges, hospitals, social housing, Crown Buildings and other government buildings.

UNBC is getting $5 million for a biomass conversion project and the Prince George Regional Hospital will be given nearly 1.6 million for lighting and  heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) retrofits.

The projects throughout the province are expected to save 8.5 thousand tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions and 21.4 gigawatt hours of electricity a year - enough to power almost 2,000 homes.


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Comment Posted by: Resident on September 24 2008 12:35 PM
Here we go again. Let's burn wood in an area over looking the residential areas and soon to be new sub-divisions. What about the health effects of the particulate matter, both condensible and non-condensible.. Have we not learned enough after the fiasco downtown about the city trying to construct a biomass plant. I can only hope there are public meetings with some real answers on the health issues this new plant will raise. Given the fact the biomass must be trucked to site, the air born particulate that will arise from the unloading facility, the particulate from the plant operation, operating costs,it is very doubtful this will be a economically and enviromentally viable venture.
Comment Posted by: Jimmi on September 24 2008 3:18 PM
why not go nuclear downtown or just dam up the Fraser for power and flood Mcbride...maybe some windmills to catch the hot air coming up her from Victoria?
Comment Posted by: DPJ on September 24 2008 10:15 PM
Does biomass conversion include carbon capture?
Comment Posted by: metalman on September 25 2008 1:09 PM
This is an attempt by the politicians to appear as if they are doing something constructive. Resident has it right I think, it is hard to see how this scheme of the university's can be 'carbon neutral' How in hell can they 'save' 3,100 tonnes of gree house gas by burning wood waste instead of natural gas? For some of the other projects mentioned; since most of the province is served by hydro electric power, how on earth can they claim to be reducing green house gas emissions by using electricity more efficiently? The ozone depleting refrigerants that we are busy replacing are still remaining on planet earth as far as I know, so what are you saving by replacing old stuff with new stuff? Is there no environmental impact associated with the production, transportation, and installation of all the new equipment? How about all the energy expended to remove and transport and recycle the old equipment? What is Dupont doing with all the R-22 they are getting back? sending it out to space perhaps? (or selling it out the back door to China and India maybe?)Could it be that the politicians do not know what they are talking about? Naw, that can't be. Sorry, I call BULL$***
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