China Leading Global Race to Make Clean Energy
Shiho Fukada for The New York Times
As China takes the lead on wind turbines, above, and solar panels, President Obama is calling for American industry to step up.
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Published: January 30, 2010
TIANJIN, China — China vaulted past competitors in Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States last year to become the world’s largest maker of wind turbines, and is poised to expand even further this year.
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Go to Blog » China has also leapfrogged the West in the last two years to emerge as the world’s largest manufacturer of solar panels. And the country is pushing equally hard to build nuclear reactors and the most efficient types of coal power plants.
These efforts to dominate renewable energy technologies raise the prospect that the West may someday trade its dependence on oil from the Mideast for a reliance on solar panels, wind turbines and other gear manufactured in China.
“Most of the energy equipment will carry a brass plate, ‘Made in China,’ ” said K. K. Chan, the chief executive of Nature Elements Capital, a private equity fund in Beijing that focuses on renewable energy.
President Obama, in his State of the Union speech last week, sounded an alarm that the United States was falling behind other countries, especially China, on energy. “I do not accept a future where the jobs and industries of tomorrow take root beyond our borders — and I know you don’t either,” he told Congress.
The United States and other countries are offering incentives to develop their own renewable energy industries, and Mr. Obama called for redoubling American efforts. Yet many Western and Chinese executives expect China to prevail in the energy-technology race.
Multinational corporations are responding to the rapid growth of China’s market by building big, state-of-the-art factories in China. Vestas of Denmark has just erected the world’s biggest wind turbine manufacturing complex here in northeastern China, and transferred the technology to build the latest electronic controls and generators.
“You have to move fast with the market,” said Jens Tommerup, the president of Vestas China. “Nobody has ever seen such fast development in a wind market.”
Renewable energy industries here are adding jobs rapidly, reaching 1.12 million in 2008 and climbing by 100,000 a year, according to the government-backed Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association.
Yet renewable energy may be doing more for China’s economy than for the environment. Total power generation in China is on track to pass the United States in 2012 — and most of the added capacity will still be from coal.
China intends for wind, solar and biomass energy to represent 8 percent of its electricity generation capacity by 2020. That compares with less than 4 percent now in China and the United States. Coal will still represent two-thirds of China’s capacity in 2020, and nuclear and hydropower most of the rest.
As China seeks to dominate energy-equipment exports, it has the advantage of being the world’s largest market for power equipment. The government spends heavily to upgrade the electricity grid, committing $45 billion in 2009 alone. State-owned banks provide generous financing.
China’s top leaders are intensely focused on energy policy: on Wednesday, the government announced the creation of a National Energy Commission composed of cabinet ministers as a “superministry” led by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao himself.
Regulators have set mandates for power generation companies to use more renewable energy. Generous subsidies for consumers to install their own solar panels or solar water heaters have produced flurries of activity on rooftops across China.
China’s biggest advantage may be its domestic demand for electricity, rising 15 percent a year. To meet demand in the coming decade, according to statistics from the International Energy Agency, China will need to add nearly nine times as much electricity generation capacity as the United States will.
So while Americans are used to thinking of themselves as having the world’s largest market in many industries, China’s market for power equipment dwarfs that of the United States, even though the American market is more mature. That means Chinese producers enjoy enormous efficiencies from large-scale production.
From the New York Times
In the United States, power companies frequently face a choice between buying renewable energy equipment or continuing to operate fossil-fuel-fired power plants that have already been built and paid for. In China, power companies have to buy lots of new equipment anyway, and alternative energy, particularly wind and nuclear, is increasingly priced competitively.
Interest rates as low as 2 percent for bank loans — the result of a savings rate of 40 percent and a government policy of steering loans to renewable energy — have also made a big difference.
As in many other industries, China’s low labor costs are an advantage in energy. Although Chinese wages have risen sharply in the last five years, Vestas still pays assembly line workers here only $4,100 a year.
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
Big Business and "Process"
Dan Mills on Turbine companies and municipal council
Dear Editor:
The die was cast for the so predictable out-come of the new Wind By-Law of
the Municipal Council of the District of Digby the night that Democracy
died. That was back in summer when, after weeks and months of meetings by
the Planning Advisory Committee ( which included 3 councilors and 3
community volunteers) the deputy-warden, a member of the same, proposed
bringing it to Council for approval.
And so they did! The deputy made the motion. And like the Lone Ranger riding
in on the great horse,Silver with a Tonto or two at his side,coming as it
seemed in the name of the new-found God,Economy, the silver bullet was
fired! And down went our Council as in the ancient Jewish parable of the oak
tree and the reed.(Jesus refers to it in Mt.11,7.)
Or another way perhaps more readily understandable to the child in us: Big
Business came in, and it huffed and it puffed and it blew the house down!
The house was made of straw! ( In consultant fees alone, over
Twenty-Thousand Hard-Earned-Tax-Payers-Dollars huffed right into the 4-site
groups pockets for a by-law which didn't take!) And it was there that
democracy died!
Council decided to do it "Their Way" on the advice of outside companies who
said they wouldn't play if the rules didn't change. And so they discounted
the PAC this time, and all the people, and hired 4-Site to do the deed in
its' own image and likeness.Fait accompli! We're just waiting for the bill
for that one!
"It's just money", I suppose the Council Treasury will avow....but it's a
lot more costly than that, isn't it? Time will prove me right.
Daniel Mills
Digby County
Nova Scotia
Dear Editor:
The die was cast for the so predictable out-come of the new Wind By-Law of
the Municipal Council of the District of Digby the night that Democracy
died. That was back in summer when, after weeks and months of meetings by
the Planning Advisory Committee ( which included 3 councilors and 3
community volunteers) the deputy-warden, a member of the same, proposed
bringing it to Council for approval.
And so they did! The deputy made the motion. And like the Lone Ranger riding
in on the great horse,Silver with a Tonto or two at his side,coming as it
seemed in the name of the new-found God,Economy, the silver bullet was
fired! And down went our Council as in the ancient Jewish parable of the oak
tree and the reed.(Jesus refers to it in Mt.11,7.)
Or another way perhaps more readily understandable to the child in us: Big
Business came in, and it huffed and it puffed and it blew the house down!
The house was made of straw! ( In consultant fees alone, over
Twenty-Thousand Hard-Earned-Tax-Payers-Dollars huffed right into the 4-site
groups pockets for a by-law which didn't take!) And it was there that
democracy died!
Council decided to do it "Their Way" on the advice of outside companies who
said they wouldn't play if the rules didn't change. And so they discounted
the PAC this time, and all the people, and hired 4-Site to do the deed in
its' own image and likeness.Fait accompli! We're just waiting for the bill
for that one!
"It's just money", I suppose the Council Treasury will avow....but it's a
lot more costly than that, isn't it? Time will prove me right.
Daniel Mills
Digby County
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick Power Deal
Power deal still unpopular
New Brunswickers uneasy about NB Power sale
By ALOMA JARDINE Moncton Times & Transcript
Sun. Jan 31 - 4:53 AM
MONCTON, N.B. — First there was disbelief, then anger, then concern as New Brunswickers tried to wade through the terms of the NB Power deal and make up their minds about it.
People have taken issue with almost every aspect of the plan to sell major assets of the New Brunswick electric utility to Hydro-Quebec.
Ask 10 people what they think of the multibillion-dollar agreement and you’ll likely get 10 different opinions.
But a few general themes have emerged.
People are worried about the long-term impact on power rates and on the province’s energy sovereignty. They question why industrial users seem to be getting a better deal than residential ones.
Mostly they feel the way the whole deal has been done stinks — and that has left them angry and suspicious.
"I’d say the thing people are most upset about is this deal has been put together in a very secret fashion. There hasn’t been a lot of public input," says Cocagne, N.B., resident Richard Lachance. "The idea of selling the province’s assets without public input, it’s not right."
The lack of transparency on the government’s part, whether real or perceived, seems to come up time and again when New Brunswickers talk about the reasons they are leery of the deal.
"People have just lost trust and faith in government and it is like they aren’t working for our benefit, they are working for their party’s benefit," Lachance says.
Geoff Martin, a political science professor at Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B., says he is getting the same vibe, that people are wondering who they can trust to tell them about the deal.
"People are a bit suspicious and also worried about the fine print and how that can come back (on us)," he says. "Maybe people in general are a little bit jaded."
Political science professor Tom Bateman at St. Thomas University in Fredericton says there has been a combination of what he calls process concerns and substance concerns in the public debate.
"I thought earlier in the debate the concerns about substance were fairly clearly articulated," he says. "Questions of sovereignty, the loss of control this province will have over its energy. . . . Other concerns were whether the assets going to Hydro-Quebec were properly valued."
Bateman says the disparity between breaks for industrial and residential users upset people.
But while those concerns remain, the focus has shifted somewhat to questioning the process — the way the deal was made and presented.
"It’s become a bit of a staple of the debate that the government has not consulted enough," Bateman says. "The MOU (memorandum of understanding) of Oct. 29 seemed to come out of nowhere. It took everybody by surprise and one wonders how much on-the-back-of-a-napkin kind of deal this really is."
The complexity of the agreement may be part of the reason people are focusing on issues of process.
"When someone is unwilling or unable to master the substance, then that person is likely to switch to the process," Bateman says. "It has always been there and it may be more strongly the case now than it was before."
Lachance says if there is a good thing in all of the controversy swirling around the NB Power deal, it is that it has got people thinking about energy.
"It is a very important issue for our future. We can’t rely on oil, but what are we moving towards?" he says.
While Lachance believes citizens should be part of the process, he doesn’t support the idea of a referendum.
"To have a provincial referendum where everybody votes on the deal would be sort of a mistake too, because I don’t feel people have the information to make a decision either way," he says.
Bateman says the government is finding itself with a very difficult communication job at this point.
"We are going to get some detail (on the deal) in the form of this massive piece of legislation. We will have the actual document, which will be hideously unreadable. It will be worse reading than the Income Tax Act and people aren’t going to (read) that either," he says.
So can the government dig itself out of the hole it has dug itself into?
"I think what I have noticed of late is that other personalities in the province have spoken out in favour of the deal, the mayors of Saint John and Edmundston," Bateman says. "I think government will have to leverage some of the trust that people have in other personalities.
The Canadian Press
‘I’d say the thing people are most upset about is this deal has been put together in a very secret fashion.’
RICHARD LACHANCECocagne, N.B. resident
New Brunswickers uneasy about NB Power sale
By ALOMA JARDINE Moncton Times & Transcript
Sun. Jan 31 - 4:53 AM
MONCTON, N.B. — First there was disbelief, then anger, then concern as New Brunswickers tried to wade through the terms of the NB Power deal and make up their minds about it.
People have taken issue with almost every aspect of the plan to sell major assets of the New Brunswick electric utility to Hydro-Quebec.
Ask 10 people what they think of the multibillion-dollar agreement and you’ll likely get 10 different opinions.
But a few general themes have emerged.
People are worried about the long-term impact on power rates and on the province’s energy sovereignty. They question why industrial users seem to be getting a better deal than residential ones.
Mostly they feel the way the whole deal has been done stinks — and that has left them angry and suspicious.
"I’d say the thing people are most upset about is this deal has been put together in a very secret fashion. There hasn’t been a lot of public input," says Cocagne, N.B., resident Richard Lachance. "The idea of selling the province’s assets without public input, it’s not right."
The lack of transparency on the government’s part, whether real or perceived, seems to come up time and again when New Brunswickers talk about the reasons they are leery of the deal.
"People have just lost trust and faith in government and it is like they aren’t working for our benefit, they are working for their party’s benefit," Lachance says.
Geoff Martin, a political science professor at Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B., says he is getting the same vibe, that people are wondering who they can trust to tell them about the deal.
"People are a bit suspicious and also worried about the fine print and how that can come back (on us)," he says. "Maybe people in general are a little bit jaded."
Political science professor Tom Bateman at St. Thomas University in Fredericton says there has been a combination of what he calls process concerns and substance concerns in the public debate.
"I thought earlier in the debate the concerns about substance were fairly clearly articulated," he says. "Questions of sovereignty, the loss of control this province will have over its energy. . . . Other concerns were whether the assets going to Hydro-Quebec were properly valued."
Bateman says the disparity between breaks for industrial and residential users upset people.
But while those concerns remain, the focus has shifted somewhat to questioning the process — the way the deal was made and presented.
"It’s become a bit of a staple of the debate that the government has not consulted enough," Bateman says. "The MOU (memorandum of understanding) of Oct. 29 seemed to come out of nowhere. It took everybody by surprise and one wonders how much on-the-back-of-a-napkin kind of deal this really is."
The complexity of the agreement may be part of the reason people are focusing on issues of process.
"When someone is unwilling or unable to master the substance, then that person is likely to switch to the process," Bateman says. "It has always been there and it may be more strongly the case now than it was before."
Lachance says if there is a good thing in all of the controversy swirling around the NB Power deal, it is that it has got people thinking about energy.
"It is a very important issue for our future. We can’t rely on oil, but what are we moving towards?" he says.
While Lachance believes citizens should be part of the process, he doesn’t support the idea of a referendum.
"To have a provincial referendum where everybody votes on the deal would be sort of a mistake too, because I don’t feel people have the information to make a decision either way," he says.
Bateman says the government is finding itself with a very difficult communication job at this point.
"We are going to get some detail (on the deal) in the form of this massive piece of legislation. We will have the actual document, which will be hideously unreadable. It will be worse reading than the Income Tax Act and people aren’t going to (read) that either," he says.
So can the government dig itself out of the hole it has dug itself into?
"I think what I have noticed of late is that other personalities in the province have spoken out in favour of the deal, the mayors of Saint John and Edmundston," Bateman says. "I think government will have to leverage some of the trust that people have in other personalities.
The Canadian Press
‘I’d say the thing people are most upset about is this deal has been put together in a very secret fashion.’
RICHARD LACHANCECocagne, N.B. resident
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Saturday, January 30, 2010
UFO's Sighted
over parts of Canadian Maritimes
N.L. woman who claims she saw missiles says area not used by model hobbyists
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By The Canadian Press
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HARBOUR MILLE, N.L. - A woman who claims she saw three missiles whiz over Newfoundland's south coast dismisses suggestions the mysterious objects could have been model rockets and claims instead the truth is being covered up.
Emmy Pardy said she clearly saw three huge "grey bullets" powering through the sky Monday off Harbour Mille, a small community of about 150 people.
The reports set off a confusing dance between government departments and the RCMP over who was addressing the issue and what, if anything, was seen.
But Pardy said Friday that suggestions by federal officials that the spot is used frequently by model rocket hobbyists are ludicrous.
"Yeah right - I don't believe that for one minute," she said from her home overlooking the bay where she spotted the mysterious objects.
"It was no model rocket. ... You don't even have to be a rocket scientist to figure that one out."
She said everyone in the tiny coastal community knows everyone and she's never heard of people launching homemade rockets from land or sea.
Pardy and two friends claim they saw the objects Monday evening as one was taking pictures of the sunset.
Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams said he was concerned about the sighting, describing himself as a "UFO guy."
Williams said he discussed the issue with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and MacKay when the two men were in St. John's.
"They said they've checked everything within the defence systems, they've checked with whoever they could check with and they have absolutely no record of anything, for want of a better term, foreign, that could have happened there," he said.
"Something was seen. But from a Canadian defence perspective, I'm satisfied after talking to the prime minister and the minister of defence that there certainly wasn't anything that was being hidden by the government of Canada."
Calls to the RCMP and Public Safety Canada on Thursday were referred to the Prime Minister's Office, which issued a statement saying only that there was no indication of a rocket launch.
Canadian and French authorities have both investigated reports of rockets appearing off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, and have concluded there has been no military testing in the area.
"We can rule out any kind of military exercise," said Dimitri Soudas, a spokesman for Harper.
Soudas had said on Thursday that there was no evidence of any kind of military testing. But authorities in both Canada and France wanted to make sure, he said, so they looked into the reports further and found no basis for concern.
The French Embassy issued a statement late Thursday indicating that it hadn't conducted any military activity in Newfoundland or nearby St-Pierre-Miquelon at the time of the sightings.
But Pardy said she definitely saw something that looked like a missile and now believes someone is concealing the explanation.
"To me it sounds like they know what happened and somebody's trying to cover something up," she said. "Somebody made a blunder somewhere."
N.L. woman who claims she saw missiles says area not used by model hobbyists
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Fri Jan 29, 8:18 PM
By The Canadian Press
ADVERTISEMENT
HARBOUR MILLE, N.L. - A woman who claims she saw three missiles whiz over Newfoundland's south coast dismisses suggestions the mysterious objects could have been model rockets and claims instead the truth is being covered up.
Emmy Pardy said she clearly saw three huge "grey bullets" powering through the sky Monday off Harbour Mille, a small community of about 150 people.
The reports set off a confusing dance between government departments and the RCMP over who was addressing the issue and what, if anything, was seen.
But Pardy said Friday that suggestions by federal officials that the spot is used frequently by model rocket hobbyists are ludicrous.
"Yeah right - I don't believe that for one minute," she said from her home overlooking the bay where she spotted the mysterious objects.
"It was no model rocket. ... You don't even have to be a rocket scientist to figure that one out."
She said everyone in the tiny coastal community knows everyone and she's never heard of people launching homemade rockets from land or sea.
Pardy and two friends claim they saw the objects Monday evening as one was taking pictures of the sunset.
Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams said he was concerned about the sighting, describing himself as a "UFO guy."
Williams said he discussed the issue with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and MacKay when the two men were in St. John's.
"They said they've checked everything within the defence systems, they've checked with whoever they could check with and they have absolutely no record of anything, for want of a better term, foreign, that could have happened there," he said.
"Something was seen. But from a Canadian defence perspective, I'm satisfied after talking to the prime minister and the minister of defence that there certainly wasn't anything that was being hidden by the government of Canada."
Calls to the RCMP and Public Safety Canada on Thursday were referred to the Prime Minister's Office, which issued a statement saying only that there was no indication of a rocket launch.
Canadian and French authorities have both investigated reports of rockets appearing off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, and have concluded there has been no military testing in the area.
"We can rule out any kind of military exercise," said Dimitri Soudas, a spokesman for Harper.
Soudas had said on Thursday that there was no evidence of any kind of military testing. But authorities in both Canada and France wanted to make sure, he said, so they looked into the reports further and found no basis for concern.
The French Embassy issued a statement late Thursday indicating that it hadn't conducted any military activity in Newfoundland or nearby St-Pierre-Miquelon at the time of the sightings.
But Pardy said she definitely saw something that looked like a missile and now believes someone is concealing the explanation.
"To me it sounds like they know what happened and somebody's trying to cover something up," she said. "Somebody made a blunder somewhere."
For your evaluation: Bullfrog Power
From the NB Businessjournal site
Bullfrog Power arrives on the Maritime energy scene
Published Thursday November 5th, 2009
B1QUENTIN CASEY
FOR THE TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL
- Bullfrog Power is leaping into the Maritimes.
Quentin Casey/For the Telegraph-Journal Tom Heintzman, president of Bullfrog Power, stands outside the Wooden Monkey restaurant in downtown Halifax, which uses the green electricity provider. The company, which touts itself as "Canada's 100 per cent green electricity provider," announced its move into the Maritime electricity market on Wednesday with a launch in Halifax.
Bullfrog, formed in 2005, allows home owners and businesses support renewable power producers in their region by paying extra for electricity.
Essentially, Bullfrog pumps enough renewable electricity into the local grid to match the power used by its customers.
So if you sign up with Bullfrog, the assumption is that all your power needs are covered by renewable sources.
Tom Heintzman, the company's president, compares the electrical grid to a bath tub. More wind and hydro power pumped into the system means less reliance on coal, oil and natural gas.
Bullfrog customers still pay their existing power provider, such as NB Power. They also pay Bullfrog to buy the more-expensive green energy from local generators.
According to Heintzman, customers end up paying about 20 per cent more for their power. But they get the satisfaction of knowing their power needs are covered by clean sources, he said.
"It's like organic food or hybrid vehicles - you give people a choice and you try to use market forces to increase the amount of renewable power," he said in an interview.
"There's no new equipment, there's no change-over cost and there's no change in the reliability."
Bullfrog Power is already available in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario.
The company serves more than 8,000 homes and 1,000 businesses - and is looking for more with its expansion into Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. "It reveals what can happen when people show they are willing to pay a little bit more for power," Heintzman said.
"It feels like there's quite a bit of enthusiasm for renewable power in the Maritimes."
In the Maritimes, Bullfrog will draw its green power from wind farms and hydro facilities in Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.
In New Brunswick, the power will come from a small Irving-owned hydro facility in St. George.
Bullfrog mainly pays small operators for their green power, but also invests in some renewable projects. The idea, Heintzman said, is to keep demand for renewable energy high - so that more wind and hydro stations are needed.
According to Heintzman, several new wind projects have been commissioned in Canada to meet the demand of Bullfrog customers.
And a number of companies have already "bullfrogpowered" some or all of their operations.
For example: the Wooden Monkey, a restaurant and bar in downtown Halifax where Heintzman announced the Maritime launch.
And big firms are also on board.
On Wednesday, BMO Financial Group announced it will purchase Bullfrog electricity for all of its 64 Maritime facilities, making it the biggest user of Bullfrog Power in Atlantic Canada.
Over the past two years, BMO has bought Bullfrog power for 78 branches across Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia.
Bullfrog Power arrives on the Maritime energy scene
Published Thursday November 5th, 2009
B1QUENTIN CASEY
FOR THE TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL
- Bullfrog Power is leaping into the Maritimes.
Quentin Casey/For the Telegraph-Journal Tom Heintzman, president of Bullfrog Power, stands outside the Wooden Monkey restaurant in downtown Halifax, which uses the green electricity provider. The company, which touts itself as "Canada's 100 per cent green electricity provider," announced its move into the Maritime electricity market on Wednesday with a launch in Halifax.
Bullfrog, formed in 2005, allows home owners and businesses support renewable power producers in their region by paying extra for electricity.
Essentially, Bullfrog pumps enough renewable electricity into the local grid to match the power used by its customers.
So if you sign up with Bullfrog, the assumption is that all your power needs are covered by renewable sources.
Tom Heintzman, the company's president, compares the electrical grid to a bath tub. More wind and hydro power pumped into the system means less reliance on coal, oil and natural gas.
Bullfrog customers still pay their existing power provider, such as NB Power. They also pay Bullfrog to buy the more-expensive green energy from local generators.
According to Heintzman, customers end up paying about 20 per cent more for their power. But they get the satisfaction of knowing their power needs are covered by clean sources, he said.
"It's like organic food or hybrid vehicles - you give people a choice and you try to use market forces to increase the amount of renewable power," he said in an interview.
"There's no new equipment, there's no change-over cost and there's no change in the reliability."
Bullfrog Power is already available in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario.
The company serves more than 8,000 homes and 1,000 businesses - and is looking for more with its expansion into Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. "It reveals what can happen when people show they are willing to pay a little bit more for power," Heintzman said.
"It feels like there's quite a bit of enthusiasm for renewable power in the Maritimes."
In the Maritimes, Bullfrog will draw its green power from wind farms and hydro facilities in Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.
In New Brunswick, the power will come from a small Irving-owned hydro facility in St. George.
Bullfrog mainly pays small operators for their green power, but also invests in some renewable projects. The idea, Heintzman said, is to keep demand for renewable energy high - so that more wind and hydro stations are needed.
According to Heintzman, several new wind projects have been commissioned in Canada to meet the demand of Bullfrog customers.
And a number of companies have already "bullfrogpowered" some or all of their operations.
For example: the Wooden Monkey, a restaurant and bar in downtown Halifax where Heintzman announced the Maritime launch.
And big firms are also on board.
On Wednesday, BMO Financial Group announced it will purchase Bullfrog electricity for all of its 64 Maritime facilities, making it the biggest user of Bullfrog Power in Atlantic Canada.
Over the past two years, BMO has bought Bullfrog power for 78 branches across Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Digby Area Tourism Association News
The Digby Area
Tourism Association
I nvites representatives
from the Digby Area
Accommodation Sector for
an information session on a
proposed Room Levy on
February 3rd at 7 pm
Municipal Office,
Seabrook
Tourism Association
I nvites representatives
from the Digby Area
Accommodation Sector for
an information session on a
proposed Room Levy on
February 3rd at 7 pm
Municipal Office,
Seabrook
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Fundy Tide Project to get Observation Deck
From CTV site
Fundy energy project to get observation facility
A couple walks on the ocean floor at low tide to view the caves carved in the red sandstone by the Bay of Fundy, N.B., in this undated photo. (Kevin Bissett / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
The Canadian Press
Date: Thursday Jan. 28, 2010 10:35 AM ET
PARRSBORO, N.S. — A tidal energy project in Nova Scotia is getting a financial boost from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.
The Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy will receive $852,000 to help with construction of an observation facility.
The land-based facility will overlook the technology test site in the Minas Passage, about 10 kilometres west of Parrsboro, N.S.
The building will house an operations and visitor centre, with educational tours, interpretive exhibits and models.
It will also provide laboratory space for research work.
Fundy energy project to get observation facility
A couple walks on the ocean floor at low tide to view the caves carved in the red sandstone by the Bay of Fundy, N.B., in this undated photo. (Kevin Bissett / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
The Canadian Press
Date: Thursday Jan. 28, 2010 10:35 AM ET
PARRSBORO, N.S. — A tidal energy project in Nova Scotia is getting a financial boost from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.
The Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy will receive $852,000 to help with construction of an observation facility.
The land-based facility will overlook the technology test site in the Minas Passage, about 10 kilometres west of Parrsboro, N.S.
The building will house an operations and visitor centre, with educational tours, interpretive exhibits and models.
It will also provide laboratory space for research work.
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