Natural Resources committee  We've done similar work in greater Sudbury, but I would say on the light pollution side of things that the push toward a reduction has come more from the non-profits or NGOs in the community in moving that agenda forward.

Natural Resources committee  I would briefly build on what Richard said. We had a number of quick starts that were a result of some immediate needs with respect to infrastructure, but in terms of prioritizing initiatives happening in our community, that was as a result of our local action planning process. I

Natural Resources committee  I would likely say it's a combination of those things.

Natural Resources committee  I think Sudbury is interesting in an iconic sort of way. I talked a lot about industry and mining in my presentation, but what I'd like to say is that in 1985-86, Time magazine did an article about Inco, saying that their investment of $500 million was the single biggest investme

Natural Resources committee  I would say that there is an investment initially, but the paybacks to the community individuals are substantial.

Natural Resources committee  I would like to support that as well--educating youth in our community, as well as educating individuals. Engaging and reaching out to the public and involving them in this process has been vital to the success of the actions outlined in our local action plan. A number of key i

Natural Resources committee  It was a gentleman by the name of Paul Graham. Paul was a plants engineer responsible for our waste water treatment plants. Paul sat at the municipalities table when the federal government commissioned the NCCP, the national climate change process. Paul sat at the municipalities

Natural Resources committee  We've worked very closely with FCM throughout this process. We are actually acknowledged by Louise Comeau, through the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, as a model for our local action planning process. We've participated in a number of initiatives with FCM through capacity

Natural Resources committee  Again, I would have difficulty in saying what role our municipality has in terms of making a contribution towards the reduction of energy consumption in the community on a global scale. We are actually just in the process of doing a greenhouse gas baseline emissions inventory for

Natural Resources committee  In Sudbury, we haven't quite moved as far forward as Okotoks, in terms of that kind of residential housing development. Recently we built Sudbury's first Energy Star home, so we're just sort of embarking on that forefront. I'll address the question from a slightly different ang

Natural Resources committee  I would say that it was fairly simple, with respect to our community, because I would say that the citizens and constituents in our community are very aware of our environment as a result of our history and what we've come through with land reclamation and recovery. So I would sa

Natural Resources committee  We found great value in working collaboratively with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and ICLEI. We have been acknowledged for the leadership we've shown, not just around strategic energy planning, but also for our work on local action planning in becoming a more sustain

Natural Resources committee  Through our work with ICLEI Energy Services, the community's supply is 47% electrical, and we've set some very stringent goals and objectives for us to help offset some of those needs through renewable energy generation like wind and small-scale hydro, biogas, solar panels, and d

Natural Resources committee  With some of the work that we did on the verification of our energy use profile in the community and our greenhouse gas emissions and reduction opportunities, we did work with ICLEI Energy Services. We did hire them to do that work for us because we wanted that information to sta

Natural Resources committee  I would say that our model or planning process was successful because we had a champion at the local level. And I would say that was an incredible value to us because we had an individual within our own organization who was able to steward this initiative, both through our own co