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Prince George Wins Award for District Energy System

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Thursday, September 30, 2010 03:58 AM

Prince George, B.C.-  The City of Prince George and District of Maple Ridge are winners of the 2010 Energy and Climate Action Awards for local governments. 
 
Prince George won the award in the Community Planning and Development category for implementation of its Greenhouse Gas Management Plan, including development of a downtown district energy system and a community energy mapping project for residential buildings. The City addressed technical challenges, issues and perceptions around bioenergy and is now developing the downtown District Energy System (DES) with the support of the community. The DES is projected to reduce GHG emissions by 1900 tonnes per year, and particulate emissions by 100 tonnes per year.
 
The District of Maple Ridge won the award in the Corporate Operations category for energy efficiency upgrades to the Maple Ridge Leisure Centre and an innovative approach to information services (IT). Extensive retrofits of the Maple Ridge Leisure Centre, including use of solar panels for domestic and recreational water heating, reduced natural gas consumption by 47% and carbon dioxide emissions by 206 tonnes, while the IT project led to a reduction in electrical consumption of 230,000 kWh/year and a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions of 4.6 tonnes.
 
The awards were presented at the Union of B.C. Municipalities Convention by John Yap, Minister of State for Climate Action.  “I want to thank these communities because they exemplify how local governments across B.C. are being creative in the quest to reduce the size of their energy footprint and build resilient communities,” said Yap. “Local governments that become more energy-efficient are showing they can save money while responding to climate change.”
 
In accepting the award, Prince George Mayor Dan Rogers said “the District Energy System we are developing will help us capture a number of community benefits. These include a reduction in GHG emissions, improvements to air quality, long term energy security, and economic development opportunities that arise by having a readily accessible source of green energy for downtown.”
“The awards celebrate leadership of local governments taking action on climate change and energy. This year's winners demonstrate that energy planning, energy efficiency and renewable energy are possible no matter where you live in the province,” said Richard White, Co-Chair, Community Energy Association and Director of Community Development, City of North Vancouver.
 

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Wednesday, 29 September 2010 22:09 Ben Webster, The Times


Britain’s leading scientific institution has been forced to rewrite its guide to climate change and admit that there is greater uncertainty about future temperature increases than it had previously suggested.

The Royal Society is publishing a new document today after a rebellion by more than 40 of its fellows who questioned mankind’s contribution to rising temperatures.
Seamutt just because you post a comment doesnt make it true. lying just to make a point is irresponsible and childish.

Royal Society was forced to re-evaluate its position because 43 of its fellows thought it was too alarmist and assumed all the science had been settled.

And here is a quote from today's report that refutes what u state "The Royal Society guide says there is "strong evidence" that changes in the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere caused by human activity -- notably a rise in carbon dioxide -- are the dominant cause of recent global warming"


Here are my sources

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7139407.ece

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h0wwUCesdxXoXAqgluiyUZlR21Vg?docId=CNG.67a0f2d737ff658859bb1a5096f6748b.5f1
Did you know mans miniscule contribution to natural C02 causing climate disruption is an unproven hypothesis. The tide is turning on the C02 scam and for the Royal Society to make this change is a big big deal.

Have you heard of the Bilderberg group. Lots of people believe they hold the power of the world, that can be refuted, but thier last meeting agenda discussed climate cooling, interesting.

Oh if you have an open mind here is some reading for you.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/09/29/royal-society-blinks-embraces-sceptics-and-uncertainty/#more-25598

http://wattsupwiththat.com/

http://climateaudit.org/

http://icecap.us/

http://www.friendsofscience.org/

That is just a start.

So if man causes climate disruption, thats the new term by the way since global warming and climate change is not working out. Anyhow before man the climate was stable, right.
I just took a dump and flushed it down the drain.
The Green Thing is a total money grabbing scam. Anyone thinking otherwise has their head up their ying yang. I agree, mankind is responsible for far too much polution, but it is a drop in the bucket compared to nature and evolution. The earth will warm up whether we contribute or not. The beetle trees in B.C. send more CO into the atmosphere than most other combined sources in Canada. Enough of GREEN. Lets go beat on another color for a change. Check out "Carbon Credits" on Google. These people should all be in jail. Biggest ripoff in history.
Everyone is a scientist. Seamutt u have no credibility. Just because you post a comment doesnt make it true. More science and less lobbyist websites. Giterdun, u should catch up to the rest of society and the sooner the better.
How can it be called a community energy system. Lakeland Mills is going to supply heat in the form of thermal oil to a thermal oil to glycol heat exchanger and pump the glycol through city facilities for heating purposes. Hardly earth shattering or innovative.

I have not seen a list of other private buildings signing on to obtain heat. How about a little public info on that front.

Given the cost of natural gas today the pay back on the 14 million dollars to be spent on the energy system will never be achieved during the life of the system.
This whole project is a city hall dream and an utter waste of taxpayer money that could have been spent elsewhere for far greater benefit or maybe even, consider the evil thought of lowering the home owners taxes.
Hood rich open up a bit and do a little reading. Are you making money of the scam?
Does it really matter? Human cause or not, it gives people something to sink money into, make money, and keep the economy going.

Basically the same as making weapons, selling them to some people who are itchin' for a fight. bombing the chit out of their infrastructure and then sending in money and contractors from countries that can't compete with China's low wages and getting taxes off the businesses.

If there are complex ways of improving our lifestyles, humans have it all figured out how it is done.

Just play along with it and everything will work out in the end ...... or maybe it won't ... LOL
The city gets the award--Lakeland mills built it years ago. Figures.
The Community Energy System is such a stupid idea, that it makes one want to puke.

You take the Government buildings that are already wired for electricity, and piped for natural gas, and you bring in a new system to heat with water.

If in fact this system was about reducing greenhouse gas emissions, then why would they not get their hot water from Intercontinental Pulp. They have a surplus, and you could get it cheap to heat the buildings.

The reason they didnt take the heated water from the pulp mills is because the Federal Government had money available under the Municipal Infrastructure Fund, and the Gas Tax Rebate Fund. Something in the area of $12 Million dollars was available for a **GREEN PROJECT** so the City came up with the Community Energy System so they could access this money.

The project itself is fraught with BS, and wouldnt hold up under close scrutiny, but Heh" would would scrutinize it?? Surely not those who dreamed it up.

Resident is right. The payback will not be acheived for over 20 years. By that time Lakeland Mills will be a long forgotten entity, along with a few of other mills in the Prince George area.

I though everyone knew that global warming was caused by flatulence from cattle.