Brockville Climate Action Group

Toronto Star / Mary Ormsby / 07 February 2010

Industrious 19th century shipbuilding was a source of pride for locals who watched the Royal George and an armada of other craft roll off the Royal Naval Dockyard docks into the great lake.

It's also a reason why Queen's University professor Andrew Graham will plant 5,000 seedlings this spring on his Lansdowne, Ont., property about 50 kilometres from that historic Kingston naval cradle.

Recorder and Times / Christine Endicott / 06 February 2010

Finally, rural people of Eastern Ontario have an edge.

Eternally handicapped compared with big-city competitors, rural areas can now claim an advantage: They're much better positioned for the "hot" solar generation industry, Joe Jordan of Upper Canada Solar Generation told about 100 area leaders gathered at the Johnstown Community Centre on Friday.

"Rural economies are generally disadvantaged. We're not now. You can't put a large solar farm in the middle of Toronto," Jordan told an attentive crowd of business leaders, politicians and farmers.

Leeds-Grenville MP Gord Brown called the local area "a hotbed of green technology."

Due to the 1998 ice storm, "we have an infrastructure that was rebuilt way ahead of schedule," Jordan said. "We have an excellent location here."

Jordan was one of seven presenters on the bio-products/green technology panel, organized by the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville as part of an ongoing economic development series.

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City of Brockville / 13 January 2010

2010 Capital Budget Energy Related Projects

Energy-efficient retrofit:

. Streetlight Conversion                         500,000
. Memorial Centre Community Hall heating/cooling  75,000
. Youth Arena heating systems                     75,000
. Lighting Retrofits
  . City buildings to be determined               72,000
  . Memorial Centre                               88,000
  . Youth Arena                                   54,000
  . Brockville Arts Centre                        16,000

Recorder and Times / Ron Zajac / 04 February 2010

The current budget officer, Lesley White, has been tapped for a promotion. She will assume the role of manager of strategic initiatives, where her job will be to ensure the city is on track with its strategic plan, particularly in regards to financial and environmental sustainability.

Casselman said a "techie team" will be entrusted with researching smart water meters, looking at examples across Canada with a view to drawing up a strategy for smart meters here by July 1.

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