Northern Health Gets Environmental Award

Saturday, July 31, 2010 03:50 AM

Prince George, B.C.- Northern Health has been recognized by Philips with the Philips Environmental Awareness and Knowledge Award (PEAK), an award given out to organizations across Canada by Philips Lighting to recognize the very best energy savings initiatives in Canada.

Over the last year, Northern Health has been working to reduce electrical energy consumption and green house gas emissions by replacing facility lighting with sustainable environmentally friendly lighting products.

Northern Health has completed a number of facility retrofits. This includes lighting upgrades in 22 hospitals and residential care facilities, which is expected to save 3,000,000kWh and 81 tonnes of carbon pollution annually. Northern Health also completed the installation and upgrading of building automation systems at 11 facilities and the replacement of six outdated boilers with high efficiency condensing units at Rainbow Community Centre and Parkside Lodge.

"Philips Lighting would like to extend sincere congratulations to Northern Health for their use and commitment to environmentally friendly low mercury lamps," said Philip Verge, Director of Professional Sales Canada, Philips Lighting. "It is about finding balance between ecological impact and economic growth and Northern Health is positively impacting that balance.

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Posted on Saturday, July 31, 2010 03:50 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: seamutt on July 31 2010 8:30 AM

Carbon pollution, so that is the new mantra, its now pollution. Okay say we take away all C02 what will happen, we die. Does anyone at Northern Health even have a basic science degree?

Posted by: Harbinger on July 31 2010 6:42 PM

This is presuming that the carbon footprint of the Northern Health buses are not taken into account. Maybe the hospital can get the buses to run on ether. Again I presume the hospital would then buy ether by the tanker load. Carbon dioxide is plant food. Doncha know?

Posted by: Chester on July 31 2010 7:08 PM

Hm! I thought plants used Carbon Dioxide in the daytime to produce oxygen for us. And at night, they don't. Hence the reason it may be quite beneficial to continue replanting trees.

Changing our light bulbs would be a great benefit to Philips lighting. What what was the cost and how long before we see the break even or payback? It all sounds good, but we need to think it all through first. We just spent how much? To change perfectly good bulbs? To benefit who? Isn't Northern Health one of the largest employers in our community now? Yep, health care is an industry. And it's controlled by the government.