Over the Bdge - October, 4

UNBC HONOURED

AGAIN

UNBC receives a Clean Energy Award

HANNA PETERSEN
NEWS EDITOR

UNBC’s pride and joy, the Bio-
energy plant, keeps on turning heads
as the year gets underway. On Sep-
tember 26th UNBC was honoured
by the Clean Energy Association of
BC for outstanding contribution to
the Province’s clean energy industry.
UNBC’s Bioenergy Plant in particular
will receive the Environmental Stew-
ardship Award. The ceremony took
place at Vancouver’s Hyatt Hotel with
UNBC President George Iwama in at-
tendance to accept the award.

Clean Energy BC is an organiza-
tion dedicated to developing a viable
clean, renewable energy industry in
British Columbia that provides cost-
effective electricity through the ef-
ficient and environmentally respon-

sible development of the province’s —

energy resources.
“The Bioenergy Plant at UNBC is
a logical extension of the University’s

Left to right- Canfor Pulp Ltd. employees and UNBC

mission to be responsible to northern
communities,” says Clean Energy BC
in their award citation. “Located at the
epicentre of Canada’s largest forestry
and bioenergy region, UNBC imple-
mented its bioenergy project to serve
as a platform for applied research and
education.”

This will be the second award the

plant has brought home to UNBC.
Last year, before the plant was even
officially up and running, the Bio-
energy Project tied Harvard Univer-
sity for the Top Campus Sustainabil-
ity Program in North America.
The Bioenergy plant was discovered
this summer to-have among the low-
est emissions of any bioenergy plant
in North America.

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UNBC USES NEW PAPER

The Switch to Eco-Friendly Paper Stocks for Oficial Purposes

HANNA PETERSEN
NEWS EDITOR

More innovation occurs at UNBC
this year as the university tirelessly
fights to make the region more eco-
friendly. This time the fight lies with
paper products that the university is
obligated to consume.

UNBC has created a’ specialty
paper stock that combines pulp from
Northern BC with post consumer re-
cycled fiber. This eco-friendly paper
will be used for official UNBC letter-
head, envelopes, and certain promo-
tional materials. This is the first time
UNBC has used paper made from re-
cycled content in this capacity.

However, the white printer paper
used in the computer labs and photo-
copiers, which are used by a vast
majority of students on campus, will
not be included in the eco-friendly
switch. The university had purchased

the equivalent of 1.4-million sheets of
the recycled paper, which is enough to
last the university about 5 years.

The paper is composed of 17%
fiber from Canfor’s Northwood pulp
mill in Prince George, and 83% post-
consumer recycled content. “Prince
George is the center of Canada’s
pulp industry, so it’s fitting that we
use a paper that is comprised of fiber
both harvested and processed local-
ly,” says UNBC President George
Iwama. “For the new paper, local
pulp is added to recycled content to
produce a high quality paper that can
run through printers and copiers on
campus and even support full colour
publications.”

The paper has been manufactured
by Monadnock Paper Mills, which is
Canfor’s longest continuous custom-

er. Monadnock Paper Mills is located
in New Hampshire and has been in
business since 1918. Monadnock is
focused on sustainable product de-
signs and manufacturing by using
100% renewable electricity in its
paper making process.

“At Monadnock, environmental
stewardship is one of our core be-
liefs,” says a company spokesperson
in a statement regarding the com-
pany’s core values. “We’re also proud
that all of our printing and packaging
papers are manufactured carbon neu-
tral using 100% renewable energy.”
The company has also built a solid
waste treatment facility to recycle
100% of their solid waste and repro-
cesses it for use as agricultural com-
post and animal bedding.

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