The Sherwood Park News ran an article this week featuring the Chamber of Commerce's newly-launched Environmental Committee. The committee's focus is two-fold: to promote the green-ness of the Alberta Energy Sector and to highlight the new industrial developments in the environmental sector - a service industry that has sprung up alongside the traditional energy sector to both service and to augment the energy re harvest via more-conventional means.
The article discussed some new key players: Clearflow Technologies, a company that uses their proprietary technology to speed up tailings pond reclamation into days instead of months and years, and has a novel approach to combating soil erosion - a definite issue that must be dealt with anywhere energy is mined.
Sherwood Park, a few years ago, launched a world-class residential recycling program servicing the residents of Strathcona County. It has reduced materials going to the landfill by over 80%! Where it falls short is the fact it doesn't address the commercial or industrial sectors (basically all non-home-based businesses) at all. A new company, Tri-Line Disposal, is addressing this shortfall for commercial clients. This will supplement the activity and further-reduce unnecessary landfill use and increase the use of renewable energy in Alberta.
Our sister company, Renew Kitchen and Bath, got a great mention as well. The mandate of that company is to eliminate the replacement of fixtures like counter tops, bathtubs, showers and tiles that have years of life left in them, but whose only crime is being outdated or damaged (chips, scratches and water damage are all repaired,) and a new surface is sprayed on leaving a brand new finish and giving years of useful life for the fixtures.
There is a lot of new development in the burgeoning environmental sector - kudos to the Sherwood Park Chamber for bringing it to the spotlight and nurturing its development!
Friday, June 3, 2011
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment