ottawa aims for green g8, g20 summits - solar powered street lights
Ottawa hopes that the legacy of the G8 and G20 summits will be green.
On Friday, the government announced plans for the upcoming summit to reduce the impact on the environment.
Foreign Minister Peter Kent (Americas)
In a park opposite the G20 media center, six components of the plan were announced at a sparsely populated press conference.
"In the case of the G8, the entire power grid will operate on wind and water," Kent said . ".
"In Toronto (Metro Toronto)
Conference Center of Direct Energy Center (
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Only renewable energy sources can be used.
Both summits will be "zero waste activities", he said, meaning waste generated at major summit sites will be recycled, reduced or reused.
"Neither of the by-products of these two incidents will be landfill," Kent said . ".
"In fact, in terms of the Group of 20 in Toronto, the level of waste transfer will be much more than 90.
"Electric buses and cars will deliver leaders and delegates during the G8 summit.
"In Toronto, a shuttle system has been developed so that more people can move with less emissions," Kent said . ".
He acknowledged that some of the transport would not be green, such as a helicopter that transported leaders from Toronto to the Central Ontario community in Huntsville and returned.
But Kent says carbon compensation will be purchased in places where greenhouse gases cannot be reduced in other ways.
Dave Martin, a climate and energy policy consultant at Greenpeace, said environmental groups were not impressed.
"The federal government recently canceled the renewable energy project, which is a irony," Martin said . ".
"The Harper government should invest in real renewable energy, not green at the G8/G20 summit.
Thousands of newly planted trees and the "living wall" of a plant will produce high
The air quality within the Direct Energy Center is known as the "environmental heritage project ".
Earlier this week, workers pulled up trees around the convention center.
Security officials fear the demonstrators will use branches as weapons.
The trees are dragged away until the end of the summit and they will be replanted.
At the same time, the Group of Eight's environmental performance will be bleak than expected.
World leaders will bathe in the glow of only five Suns.
Later this month, when they arrived in rural Ontario, the power street lights replaced the planned 15.
Solar lamp is the "landmark environmental protection project" of the G8 summit ".
"During the leaders' meeting 1, they should follow the route of the Huntsville resort --night stay.
But the lighting company said bad terrain led to slow development and there was not enough time to install all 15 lights before the summit began.