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Monday, February 9, 2004
GREEN POWER: Pollution
Probe releases Renewable Energy
Primer
Easy-to-use
booklet explains how renewable energy works, offers quick facts
(Calgary, AB) Pollution
Probe is pleased to release its new Primer on the Technologies of Renewable Energy today, in conjunction
with a Green Power Workshop it is hosting in Calgary.
The Primer on the
Technologies of Renewable Energy has been developed to promote greater
public understanding of the potential for shifting Canada’s energy
generation sources to cleaner and less greenhouse-gas intensive technologies.
This informative 81-page booklet explains what renewable
energy is and how it works--how
water works as a renewable energy source; how wind can generate large amounts
of electricity; solar power; and, biomass technology which develops energy
from agricultural crops, fast-growing trees and mill waste.
“Renewable energy is a hot topic” says Ken Ogilvie,
Pollution Probe’s executive director. “It’s
something all of us—as individuals, as corporate and government
leaders—have to consider, as we face increasing demand for power,
ever-dwindling supplies of some traditional fuels, and challenges such as
global warming.” In particular, low-impact renewable energy – often referred to
as Green Power – is increasingly being promoted as essential to Canada’s
energy future.
Pollution Probe’s Green Power workshop in Calgary is the
fourth of a series of five being run across Canada. The Calgary workshop,
February 9-10, features experts from the US, the UK and the Netherlands.
The Primer on the Technologies of Renewable Energy is
available electronically at www.pollutionprobe.org/Publications/Energy.htm.
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For more information:
Elizabeth Everhardus, Pollution Probe
Cell (416) 697-4277
Office:
(416) 926-1907 ext. 244
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