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Community Power Awards nominees announced - Environmental Communication Options/Huff Strategy

Community Power Awards nominees announced

Nov 2nd, 2010 5:46 AM

Media Advisory Community Power Awards nominees announced The Ontario Sustainable Energy Association (OSEA) is pleased to announce the Community Power Award nominees for 2010. The Community Power Award is presented to individuals and/or organizations, whose work has contributed significantly to the Community Power movement. Gord Miller, the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario will open the evening with a keynote presentation at the Community Power Awards Banquet at the Community Power Conference at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, November 15, 2010. The Community Power Conference is Ontario’s largest annual gathering of Community Power proponents, producers and supporters. Together with the Power Networking Centre trade show, the conference attracts industry regulators, commercial and community power generators, farmers and First Nation and Métis delegations. The conference offers two full days of meeting and learning from Community Power experts, while the trade show displays the latest innovations in power generation technologies and services. For agenda, see http://bit.ly/d9WQTt Please see below for a list of Community Power Awards nominees for 2010. Community Power Leader Deborah Doncaster, CP Fund Marion Fraser, Fraser and Company Brent Kopperson, Windfall Centre Derek Satnik, Mindscape Innovations International Community Power Tetsunari Iida, Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies (ISEP) Preben Maegaard, Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy Joseph Pesch, FESA Fabio Rosa, Instituto Para O Desenvolvimento De Energias Alternativas E Da Auto Sustentabilidade (IDEAAS) Aboriginal Community Power William Big Bull, Walpole Island First Nation and Piikani First Nation Byron LeClaire, Pic River First Nation Roger Peltier, Wikwemikong Unceded Nation Grant Taibossgai, M’Chigeeng First Nation Rural Community Power Joe Botscheller, Farmers for Economic Opportunity, Simcoe Paul Klaesi, Fepro Farm, Cobden Glen Estil, Sky Generation, Lion’s Head Don McCabe, Ontario Federation of Agriculture, Guelph Urban Community Power Mike Brigham, SolarShare Paul Charbonneau, EnergyAdvocate.ca, Toronto Karen Farbridge, City of Guelph Robert Gallagher, Town of Blind River/North Shore Power Group Mike Layton, Green Energy Act Alliance, Toronto William Mates, Town of Ingersoll Joyce McLean, Toronto Hydro, Toronto Rob McMonogle, City of Toronto Tom Rand, MaRS, Toronto Ijaz Rauf, Amadiyyah Muslim Community, Vaughan Rick Salay, Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Toronto Erin Shapero, Councillor of Ward 2, Town of Markham Stephen Sottile, Utilities Kingston 2009 winners were: - Community Power Leader Award - George Smitherman, former MPP Toronto Centre and Minister of Energy and Infrastructure (Toronto) - Aboriginal Community Power Award - Michael Fox, President, Fox High Impact Consulting (Thunder Bay) - Urban Community Power Award - Ken Traynor, Toronto Renewable Energy Co-Op (Toronto) - Rural Community Power Award - Paul Norris, President, Ontario Water Power Association (Peterborough) Further details can be found at: http://www.cpconference.ca For conference registration, please visit: http://registration.cpconference.ca For more information, please contact: Maria Leung, Environmental Communication Options, mleung@ecostrategy.ca OR 416-972-7401