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The New Brunswick
Community Challenge
1. Meet with local government, business, &
community groups
2. Formalize a “Commitment to Action”
3. Provide support to host a “Community Luncheon”
The New Brunswick
Community Challenge
4. Help facilitate community leader in developing
programs
5. Help monitor all emission reductions
6. Facilitate promotion of local programs
The City of Fredericton and The New Brunswick Climate Change Hub
Present the
Fredericton Community Dialogue Forum
“Moving from Commitments to Action”
9:00 am, November XX, 2006
Arena Banquet Room
Come join us for a day of
speakers, climate change
discussions, and entertainment.
Contact: Eddie Oldfield
(506) 455-8961 ext. 113
[email protected]
Admission is free and the event is
open to the public.
www.nbhub.org
Some Active Communities
•Fredericton
•Bouctouche
•Dorchester
•Hampton
•Miramichi
•Quispamsis
•Rothesay
•Edmundston
•Woodstock
•Bathurst
•Shippagan
•St. Andrews
•St. Stephen
•Riverview
•Campbellton
•Sackville
What Can We Do?
• Canadian Municipalities have influence over
56% of their GHG emissions
• Mitigation - reduce emissions
• We Feel Direct & Indirect Impacts
• Environmental
• Health
• Economic
• Adaptation - reduce risk
A Focus on Sustainability
Good community planning can:
• Improve health and safety in neighbourhoods
• Enable more active lifestyles
• Reduce air pollution / GHGs
• Strengthen Local Economy
• Create Jobs
• E.g. Home Energy
Efficiency Improvements
Building Capacity and
Community Leadership
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Greening Communities / Infrastructure
Street Lighting (conversion to LEDs)
Form a Local Action Committee
Active / Public Transportation
Energy Efficiency in Buildings
Fleet Management
Building Capacity and
Community Leadership
• Neighborhood Planning / limit urban sprawl
• Renewable Energy (ie, Wind Power)
• Public Education and Outreach
• Recycling / Composting
• Waste Reduction
• Partnerships
Fleet Management
•Burning
of carbon based fuel is the largest
source of GHG emissions
•New
km
Brunswick Road network is 76, 600
•Total
vehicle distance traveled is over 1.9B km
in 2004
Fleet Management
•Vehicles under 4.5 tonnes averaged
4,000 km/year
•Vehicles under 15 tonnes averaged
2,470 km/year
•Vehicles over 15 tonnes averaged
29,700 km/year
Fleet Management
Intervention methods:
1. Implement an anti-idling policy
2. Cab-Heater Technology
3. Tire Inflation Standards
4. Speed Reduction Policy
Fleet Management
Intervention methods:
5. Driver Training
6. Alternative Fuels
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Ethanol
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Biodiesel
7. Route Optimization
The New Brunswick Climate Change Hub
Public Education & Outreach Strategy Goals:
1. Inform, educate & build awareness
2. Develop Support
3. Encourage and Motivate Action
Hosted by the New Brunswick Lung Association
The New Brunswick Climate Change Hub
Objectives:
1. Build upon provincial network
2. Manage sector-specific working groups
3. Support community groups
4. Build capacity of Hub members
5. Operate as a clearinghouse
6. Conduct outreach programs
New Brunswick Climate
Change Hub
What these objectives can achieve:
1. Public understanding
2. Community action
3. Commitment from businesses and industry
4. Improved education system
5. Informed youth
• NB Power
NB Situation
– Electricity generation in New Brunswick
– 20MW of Wind in 2005
• High winter peaks
– > 60% of homes use electric heat
– > 80% of new homes use electric heat
• Highest electric use per GDP
www.nbpower.com
Wholesale
Industrial
General Service
Residential
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GWh
In Province Sales - NB Power
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions In New
Brunswick
• NB releases over 20 million tonnes of GHG
each year.
• This accounts for 3% of Canada’s GHG
emission total.
• Electricity generation accounts for almost
half of the GHG emissions in the province.
New Brunswick GHG Emissions 2001
(Total = 21.3 Mt CO2 Equivalent)
Residential
3% - 0.6Mt
Non-Energy GHG
7% - 1.4 Mt
Commercial
3% - 0.7 Mt
Industrial
10% - 1.7 Mt
Transportation
25% - 4.9 Mt
Producer's
Consumption
5% - 1.1 Mt
Electricity Consumption by Sector, 2001
32%
Electricity Generation
47% - 10.7 Mt
51%
18%
Residential
Comm. & Institution.
Industrial
Source: Statistics Canada, Environment Canada
Note: Producer's Consumption is the energy used by the energy industry including petroleum refining and electricity generation. Non-Energy
are emissions from industrial & land uses such as landfills, agriculture, etc.
GHG
An Energy Efficiency Organization
for New Brunswick
• Objective:
To create a system to deliver energy efficiency and to
reduce energy demand.
• Goals:
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Improve the efficiency of energy use in all sectors
Reduce electricity demand
Mitigate the need for additional large power plants
Maintain competitive energy rates for customers
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions
What Is
Demand Side Management?
• Education of the market on the cost of demand growth
• Promotion of efficient products and services
– Efficient lighting
– Efficient heating and ventilation
– Efficient industrial processing
• Fuel switching
How many MW’s could we save if all the residential
electric space heat load converted to another fuel ?
181,241 electric space heat customers
X
=
6.2 kW per customer
1,123,694 kW
=
1,123 MW
or
Point Lepreau plus Belldune
Source: NB Power, “Screening of Demand Side Management Options”, January 2002;
and Load Forecast Model 2002/03 – 2010/11
Global Warming
• Predictions say temperatures will increase
between 1.4-5.8 C in next 100 years
• Small changes in average temperatures make a
big difference
• Average temperatures today
are only about 5ºC warmer
than they were during the
last Ice Age
Mortality in Paris
June-August 2003
325 in
one day
Source: INVS, 2003
THANK YOU
Eddie Oldfield, Director
Tel: (506) 455-8961 Ext. 113
Fax: (506) 462-0939
Email: [email protected]
Adam Merrill , Project Assistant
Tel: (506) 455-8961 Ext. 114
Fax: (506) 462-0939
Email: [email protected]
www.nbhub.org