W e would like to extend our congratulations to this year’s 14 Leadership Award winners and 20 Honourable Mention recipients! Their contributions towards the voluntary reduction of GHG emissions are a shining example of the strong level of dedication that exists within both the private and public sectors to assist Canada in meeting its climate change objectives.We hope that their accomplishments will serve to encourage continuous improvement and to deepen the level of achievement among all VCR Inc. registrants. The Honourable Ralph Goodale, Minister of Natural Resources Canada, and The Honourable David Anderson, Minister of Environment Canada, presented the awards on March 2, 2000, at our annual Council of Champions Meeting and Leadership Awards Ceremony in Hull, Québec. More than 200 persons attended the event, including VCR Inc. Council of Champions and Board members, association heads, and government and industry representatives. “I am particularly pleased with the significant increase in attendance at our Awards Ceremony this year,” said Bob Flemington, President of VCR Inc. “There is clearly a good deal of healthy competition for these honours.” Speakers included Ministers Goodale and vcr inc. Inside This Issue 1 Congratulations to Our 1999 Leadership Award Winners! 2 Husky Rewards Employees for Environmental Performance 3 VCR Inc. Credit Registry Designated to Play Key Role in Baseline Protection 4 1999 Annual Report Released! 5 Meetings/Events 6 Welcome to Our Newest Registrants! 7 Thank You to Our Sponsors March 2000 Volume 3, Issue 2 Canada’s Climate Change voluntary challenge & registry inc. Champion News The Official Newsletter of Canada’s Climate Change Voluntary Challenge and Registry Inc. (VCR Inc.) Congratulations to Our 1999 Leadership Award Winners! From left to right: Front row - Rahumathulla Marikkar (Interface Canada), John Donner (Alberta Environment), Don Lowry (EPCOR), Robert Schad (Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.), Michael O'Brien (Suncor Energy Inc.) and Don Hames (Dow Chemical Canada Inc.). Back row - Bob Flemington (VCR Inc.), Leon Courneya (Northwest Territories Power Corporation), Don Worth (Cominco Ltd.), Mike Sheridan (Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited), Jerry Anderson (Mobil Canada), Greg MacNeil (Rocky View School Division No.41) Paul Marier (Spruce Falls Inc.),Sue Olynyk (CIPEC),Peter Torbet (CIPEC),Doug Baldwin (TransCanada PipeLines Limited), The Honourable David Anderson (Environment Canada) and The Honourable Ralph Goodale (Natural Resources Canada).
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W e would like to extend ourcongratulations to this year’s
14 Leadership Award winners and 20Honourable Mention recipients! Theircontributions towards the voluntaryreduction of GHG emissions are a shiningexample of the strong level of dedicationthat exists within both the private andpublic sectors to assist Canada in meetingits climate change objectives.We hopethat their accomplishments will serve toencourage continuous improvement andto deepen the level of achievementamong all VCR Inc. registrants.
The Honourable Ralph Goodale,Minister of Natural Resources Canada,
and The Honourable David Anderson,Minister of Environment Canada,presented the awards on March 2, 2000,at our annual Council of ChampionsMeeting and Leadership AwardsCeremony in Hull, Québec. More than200 persons attended the event, includingVCR Inc. Council of Champions andBoard members, association heads, andgovernment and industry representatives.“I am particularly pleased with thesignificant increase in attendance at ourAwards Ceremony this year,” said BobFlemington, President of VCR Inc.“There is clearly a good deal of healthycompetition for these honours.” Speakersincluded Ministers Goodale and
vcr inc.
Inside This Issue
1 Congratulations toOur 1999 Leadership Award Winners!
W e would like to extend a warmwelcome to the following
companies and organizations that haverecently joined our Challenge Registry:
• Amber Energy• British Columbia Power Exchange Corp.
(Powerex) • Collège Notre-Dame de l'Assomption• Compost Management • Denim Swift• Downie Timber Ltd.• Ensyn Technologies Inc.• First Real Properties Limited• Consulting• La Régie régional de Montréal-Centre• M&M Meat Shops• Norseman Engineering Ltd.• School District 43 (Coquitlam)• R. J. Burnside International Limited • Riverside Forest Products• Taylor Munro Energy Systems Inc.• The Body Shop• The Greenhouse Emissions Management
Consortium (GEMCo)• Université Laval
We look forward to working with themin the months to come, as we strive toreduce Canada’s GHG emissions inpartnership together.
In addition, we would like to highlight theachievements of our two most recentGold Champion-level reporters: theUniversity of Ottawa and B.C. GasUtility Ltd. Congratulations to themboth on a job well done! Their ProgressReports are comprehensive, and theresults that they have achieved areimpressive.
Thank You to Our Sponsors
O nce again, we would like tothank our sponsors for their
contributions towards our March 2nd
Council of Champions Meeting andLeadership Awards Ceremony. Thesuccess of our event was significantlyenhanced by their generous support, andwe greatly appreciated both their moraland financial encouragement. Listed inalphabetical order:
Actions by the InternationalOil and Gas Industry toAddress Climate Change
Thursday, April 27, 2000Toronto, Ontario
PERT Program Working GroupFace-to-face Meeting
Meetings/Events(that involve VCR Inc.)
continued from previous page
Congratulations to Our 1999 Leadership Award Winners!
From left to right: Front row - Rahumathulla Marikkar (Interface Canada), John Donner (Alberta Environment), Don Lowry (EPCOR),Robert Schad (Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.), Michael O'Brien (Suncor Energy Inc.) and Don Hames (Dow Chemical Canada
Inc.). Back row - Bob Flemington (VCR Inc.), Leon Courneya (Northwest Territories Power Corporation), Don Worth (Cominco Ltd.),Mike Sheridan (Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited), Jerry Anderson (Mobil Canada), Greg MacNeil (Rocky View School DivisionNo. 41) Paul Marier (Spruce Falls Inc.), Sue Olynyk (CIPEC), Peter Torbet (CIPEC), Doug Baldwin (TransCanada PipeLines Limited),
The Honourable David Anderson (Environment Canada) and The Honourable Ralph Goodale (Natural Resources Canada).
For further information, please contact:
Canada’s Climate ChangeVoluntary Challenge and Registry Inc.170 Laurier Avenue West, Suite 600,Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 5V5Contact: Brian Rawson, Registry AnalystTel.: (613) 565-5151Fax: (613) 565-5743E-mail: [email protected]
Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.500 Queen Street SouthBolton, Ontario, L7E 5S5
Contact:Valerie Chort,Vice President,Environment, Health and SafetyTel.: (905) 951-5015Fax: (905) 951-5322E-mail: [email protected]
VCR Inc. Credit RegistryDesignated to Play KeyRole in Baseline Protection
O n January 12, 2000, federal,provincial and territorial
governments approved the BaselineProtection initiative and appointedVCR Inc. as the official nationalregistry for Baseline Projects.
In response to this initiative, we haveintegrated Baseline project registrationinto our Canadian GHG Credit Registry– a national registry for early action.ThisRegistry will accommodate BaselineProtection, Credit for Early Action, theGreenhouse Gas Emission ReductionTrading (GERT) Pilot and other emergingelements of voluntary action. It is locatedon our Web site at www.vcr-mvr.caand may be accessed by clicking on theCanadian GHG Credit Registry button inthe centre of the home page.
Baseline Protection is intended to reducethe uncertainty of business and tofacilitate long-term corporate planning.It will ensure that organizations thatundertake early actions to reduce GHG
emissions are not disadvantaged. In theevent that a future policy allocatesemissions rights or reduction obligationson the basis of emissions levels, BaselineProtection will allow businesses andinstitutions to reconstruct their emissionsbaselines in order to include emissionsreductions through investment in earlyactions.
Under this Baseline Protection initiative,businesses and institutions are being askedto document and to maintain records ofactions or projects that they haveundertaken to reduce their GHGemissions. In order to be eligible, theymust be a Canadian legal entity operatingwithin Canada; the facility generating thereductions must be located in Canada; thespecific reduction project must have beenstarted on or after January 1, 1990; andthe emissions reductions must be real,measurable and verifiable.
If you have any questions or comments aboutBaseline Protection or about our CanadianGHG Credit Registry, please contact us bytelephone at (613) 565-5151 or by e-mail [email protected].
1999 Annual ReportReleased!
O ur second Annual Report wasreleased on March 2, 2000, at our
Council of Champions Meeting andLeadership Awards Ceremony. Next, itwill be distributed to all VCR Inc.registrants and other interested parties bymail and will also appear on-line atwww.vcr-mvr.ca within the next fewweeks.The purpose of the report is toprovide readers with a comprehensiveoverview of VCR Inc. activities over the1999 year.
If you would like to receive a copy of thisdocument, please contact our office bytelephone at (613) 565-5151, by fax at (613)565-5743 or by e-mail at [email protected].
Anderson, in addition to Ron Munkley,Chairman of the VCR Inc. Board, BobFlemington, and Dr. David Bell,Chairman of the VCR Inc.TechnicalAdvisory Committee (TAC).
The selection criteria for the awards weredeveloped by VCR Inc.’s TAC, whichconsists of 23 representatives fromacademia, labour, environmental non-government organizations, the aboriginalcommunity, industry and governments.TAC also provided the judgingpanel for the 1999 awardsprogram.
Throughout the judgingprocess, special emphasis wasplaced on finding organizations that haddemonstrated commitment, action andleadership within their economic sector.Recognition for commitment and actionwas granted to eligible registrants basedon their Action Plans and/or ProgressReports.Those recipients who wererecognized for leadership were drawnfrom a list of nominated individuals orassociations that had been widely active asadvocates for the voluntary climatechange challenge.
Eligible submissions for this year’s awardswere drawn from registered planssubmitted to VCR Inc. betweenNovember 1, 1998, and October 31,1999. Last year’s winners were noteligible to win this year around.
H usky Injection Molding SystemsLtd. (Husky), a Gold Champion-
level reporter and 1999 Leadership Awardwinner, recently introduced a unique wayof rewarding its staff for positiveenvironmental performance.
On January 21, 2000, the companyannounced the formation of its
GreenShares program, which allowsemployees to earn Husky shares byparticipating in four different areas ofenvironmental and community basedactivities, which include the following:
• Commuting to work (walking, biking,car pooling, public transport);
• Conserving energy and resources atwork;
• Volunteering for environmental,community or educational causes; or
• “Greening” the environment throughpersonal purchase decisions.
Each activity was selected based on thepositive impact that it has on thecommunity or the environment throughthe reduction of GHG emissions.Employees are awarded GreenSharesbased upon voluntary reporting and aspecific allocation methodology.Theshares are then converted into Huskystock on a quarterly basis.
According to Robert Schad, HuskyPresident and CEO, “GreenShares is aunique vehicle to further demonstrate ourcommitment to social and environmentalgoals, while expanding our employeeshare ownership. In addition, GreenSharessupports our Climate Change Action Planand Kyoto Challenge commitments.”
The program is funded from Husky’sexisting donation budget, through whichfive per cent of Husky’s pretax profit isused to support environmental,educational and community projects.
Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. is aglobal supplier of injection molding equipmentthat produces a wide range of plastic parts. Itoperates ten manufacturing businesses thatsupply core injection molding products both forspecialized niches and general-purpose markets.Customers use Husky’s equipment tomanufacture a wide range of products in thepackaging, automotive and technicalindustries. Its manufacturing campuses arelocated in Ontario, Luxembourg and Vermont.
Champion News March 2000
Volume 3, Issue 2
vcr inc.
Meetings/Events(that involve VCR Inc.)
Tuesday, March 21, 2000Vancouver,
British ColumbiaGreenhouse Gas EmissionReduction Trading (GERT)
Pilot Workshop on “How to Takea Project through GERT”
Tuesday, March 28, 2000Toronto, Ontario
Pilot Emissions ReductionTrading (PERT) Program
Working Group Face-to-faceMeeting
Thursday and FridayApril 6 and 7, 2000
Calgary, AlbertaGERT Pilot Technical
Committee Face-to-faceMeeting
Friday, April 14, 2000Calgary, Alberta
GERT Pilot Workshop on“How to Take a Project
through GERT”
continued on next page
Champion News March 2000 Volume 3, Issue 2
vcr inc.
For further information, please contact:
Canada’s Climate ChangeVoluntary Challenge and Registry Inc.170 Laurier Avenue West, Suite 600,Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 5V5Contact: Brian Rawson, Registry AnalystTel.: (613) 565-5151Fax: (613) 565-5743E-mail: [email protected]
Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.500 Queen Street SouthBolton, Ontario, L7E 5S5
Contact:Valerie Chort,Vice President,Environment, Health and SafetyTel.: (905) 951-5015Fax: (905) 951-5322E-mail: [email protected]
VCR Inc. Credit RegistryDesignated to Play KeyRole in Baseline Protection
O n January 12, 2000, federal,provincial and territorial
governments approved the BaselineProtection initiative and appointedVCR Inc. as the official nationalregistry for Baseline Projects.
In response to this initiative, we haveintegrated Baseline project registrationinto our Canadian GHG Credit Registry– a national registry for early action.ThisRegistry will accommodate BaselineProtection, Credit for Early Action, theGreenhouse Gas Emission ReductionTrading (GERT) Pilot and other emergingelements of voluntary action. It is locatedon our Web site at www.vcr-mvr.caand may be accessed by clicking on theCanadian GHG Credit Registry button inthe centre of the home page.
Baseline Protection is intended to reducethe uncertainty of business and tofacilitate long-term corporate planning.It will ensure that organizations thatundertake early actions to reduce GHG
emissions are not disadvantaged. In theevent that a future policy allocatesemissions rights or reduction obligationson the basis of emissions levels, BaselineProtection will allow businesses andinstitutions to reconstruct their emissionsbaselines in order to include emissionsreductions through investment in earlyactions.
Under this Baseline Protection initiative,businesses and institutions are being askedto document and to maintain records ofactions or projects that they haveundertaken to reduce their GHGemissions. In order to be eligible, theymust be a Canadian legal entity operatingwithin Canada; the facility generating thereductions must be located in Canada; thespecific reduction project must have beenstarted on or after January 1, 1990; andthe emissions reductions must be real,measurable and verifiable.
If you have any questions or comments aboutBaseline Protection or about our CanadianGHG Credit Registry, please contact us bytelephone at (613) 565-5151 or by e-mail [email protected].
1999 Annual ReportReleased!
O ur second Annual Report wasreleased on March 2, 2000, at our
Council of Champions Meeting andLeadership Awards Ceremony. Next, itwill be distributed to all VCR Inc.registrants and other interested parties bymail and will also appear on-line atwww.vcr-mvr.ca within the next fewweeks.The purpose of the report is toprovide readers with a comprehensiveoverview of VCR Inc. activities over the1999 year.
If you would like to receive a copy of thisdocument, please contact our office bytelephone at (613) 565-5151, by fax at (613)565-5743 or by e-mail at [email protected].
Anderson, in addition to Ron Munkley,Chairman of the VCR Inc. Board, BobFlemington, and Dr. David Bell,Chairman of the VCR Inc.TechnicalAdvisory Committee (TAC).
The selection criteria for the awards weredeveloped by VCR Inc.’s TAC, whichconsists of 23 representatives fromacademia, labour, environmental non-government organizations, the aboriginalcommunity, industry and governments.TAC also provided the judgingpanel for the 1999 awardsprogram.
Throughout the judgingprocess, special emphasis wasplaced on finding organizations that haddemonstrated commitment, action andleadership within their economic sector.Recognition for commitment and actionwas granted to eligible registrants basedon their Action Plans and/or ProgressReports.Those recipients who wererecognized for leadership were drawnfrom a list of nominated individuals orassociations that had been widely active asadvocates for the voluntary climatechange challenge.
Eligible submissions for this year’s awardswere drawn from registered planssubmitted to VCR Inc. betweenNovember 1, 1998, and October 31,1999. Last year’s winners were noteligible to win this year around.
H usky Injection Molding SystemsLtd. (Husky), a Gold Champion-
level reporter and 1999 Leadership Awardwinner, recently introduced a unique wayof rewarding its staff for positiveenvironmental performance.
On January 21, 2000, the companyannounced the formation of its
GreenShares program, which allowsemployees to earn Husky shares byparticipating in four different areas ofenvironmental and community basedactivities, which include the following:
• Commuting to work (walking, biking,car pooling, public transport);
• Conserving energy and resources atwork;
• Volunteering for environmental,community or educational causes; or
• “Greening” the environment throughpersonal purchase decisions.
Each activity was selected based on thepositive impact that it has on thecommunity or the environment throughthe reduction of GHG emissions.Employees are awarded GreenSharesbased upon voluntary reporting and aspecific allocation methodology.Theshares are then converted into Huskystock on a quarterly basis.
According to Robert Schad, HuskyPresident and CEO, “GreenShares is aunique vehicle to further demonstrate ourcommitment to social and environmentalgoals, while expanding our employeeshare ownership. In addition, GreenSharessupports our Climate Change Action Planand Kyoto Challenge commitments.”
The program is funded from Husky’sexisting donation budget, through whichfive per cent of Husky’s pretax profit isused to support environmental,educational and community projects.
Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. is aglobal supplier of injection molding equipmentthat produces a wide range of plastic parts. Itoperates ten manufacturing businesses thatsupply core injection molding products both forspecialized niches and general-purpose markets.Customers use Husky’s equipment tomanufacture a wide range of products in thepackaging, automotive and technicalindustries. Its manufacturing campuses arelocated in Ontario, Luxembourg and Vermont.
Champion News March 2000
Volume 3, Issue 2
vcr inc.
Meetings/Events(that involve VCR Inc.)
Tuesday, March 21, 2000Vancouver,
British ColumbiaGreenhouse Gas EmissionReduction Trading (GERT)
Pilot Workshop on “How to Takea Project through GERT”
Tuesday, March 28, 2000Toronto, Ontario
Pilot Emissions ReductionTrading (PERT) Program
Working Group Face-to-faceMeeting
Thursday and FridayApril 6 and 7, 2000
Calgary, AlbertaGERT Pilot Technical
Committee Face-to-faceMeeting
Friday, April 14, 2000Calgary, Alberta
GERT Pilot Workshop on“How to Take a Project
through GERT”
continued on next page
Champion News March 2000 Volume 3, Issue 2
vcr inc.
W e would like to extend ourcongratulations to this year’s
14 Leadership Award winners and 20Honourable Mention recipients! Theircontributions towards the voluntaryreduction of GHG emissions are a shiningexample of the strong level of dedicationthat exists within both the private andpublic sectors to assist Canada in meetingits climate change objectives.We hopethat their accomplishments will serve toencourage continuous improvement andto deepen the level of achievementamong all VCR Inc. registrants.
The Honourable Ralph Goodale,Minister of Natural Resources Canada,
and The Honourable David Anderson,Minister of Environment Canada,presented the awards on March 2, 2000,at our annual Council of ChampionsMeeting and Leadership AwardsCeremony in Hull, Québec. More than200 persons attended the event, includingVCR Inc. Council of Champions andBoard members, association heads, andgovernment and industry representatives.“I am particularly pleased with thesignificant increase in attendance at ourAwards Ceremony this year,” said BobFlemington, President of VCR Inc.“There is clearly a good deal of healthycompetition for these honours.” Speakersincluded Ministers Goodale and
vcr inc.
Inside This Issue
1 Congratulations toOur 1999 Leadership Award Winners!
W e would like to extend a warmwelcome to the following
companies and organizations that haverecently joined our Challenge Registry:
• Amber Energy• British Columbia Power Exchange Corp.
(Powerex) • Collège Notre-Dame de l'Assomption• Compost Management • Denim Swift• Downie Timber Ltd.• Ensyn Technologies Inc.• First Real Properties Limited• Consulting• La Régie régional de Montréal-Centre• M&M Meat Shops• Norseman Engineering Ltd.• School District 43 (Coquitlam)• R. J. Burnside International Limited • Riverside Forest Products• Taylor Munro Energy Systems Inc.• The Body Shop• The Greenhouse Emissions Management
Consortium (GEMCo)• Université Laval
We look forward to working with themin the months to come, as we strive toreduce Canada’s GHG emissions inpartnership together.
In addition, we would like to highlight theachievements of our two most recentGold Champion-level reporters: theUniversity of Ottawa and B.C. GasUtility Ltd. Congratulations to themboth on a job well done! Their ProgressReports are comprehensive, and theresults that they have achieved areimpressive.
Thank You to Our Sponsors
O nce again, we would like tothank our sponsors for their
contributions towards our March 2nd
Council of Champions Meeting andLeadership Awards Ceremony. Thesuccess of our event was significantlyenhanced by their generous support, andwe greatly appreciated both their moraland financial encouragement. Listed inalphabetical order:
Actions by the InternationalOil and Gas Industry toAddress Climate Change
Thursday, April 27, 2000Toronto, Ontario
PERT Program Working GroupFace-to-face Meeting
Meetings/Events(that involve VCR Inc.)
continued from previous page
Congratulations to Our 1999 Leadership Award Winners!
From left to right: Front row - Rahumathulla Marikkar (Interface Canada), John Donner (Alberta Environment), Don Lowry (EPCOR),Robert Schad (Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.), Michael O'Brien (Suncor Energy Inc.) and Don Hames (Dow Chemical Canada
Inc.). Back row - Bob Flemington (VCR Inc.), Leon Courneya (Northwest Territories Power Corporation), Don Worth (Cominco Ltd.),Mike Sheridan (Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited), Jerry Anderson (Mobil Canada), Greg MacNeil (Rocky View School DivisionNo. 41) Paul Marier (Spruce Falls Inc.), Sue Olynyk (CIPEC), Peter Torbet (CIPEC), Doug Baldwin (TransCanada PipeLines Limited),
The Honourable David Anderson (Environment Canada) and The Honourable Ralph Goodale (Natural Resources Canada).
