Speakers at the Dockside announcement on March 30, 2007
Sustainable Infrastructure Development Forum & Dockside Green Tour
March 23, 2010, Victoria, BC
Sponsored by: Nexterra and Corix
Agenda
Presentations
11:30am Introduction & Moderator
Introduction: Greg Reimer, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, BC Government of BC’s clean energy policy and priorities.
11:40am Building Renewable Energy into City Planning
Speaker: Dean Fortin, Mayor of Victoria
Welcome and review of challenges, accomplishments, opportunities, and future plans for City of Victoria in the area of sustainable development.
12:00pm Innovative Partnerships to Facilitate the Development of Sustainable Communities
Speaker: Eric van Roon, VP and Chief Operating Officer, Corix Utilities
Financing and operating models to assist municipalities and other institutions with achievement of sustainability goals.
Speaker: Sadhu Johnston, Deputy City Manager, City of Vancouver
Vancouver's plans for becoming North America's "Greenest City" - sustainability programming, carbon management, North East False Creek, etc.
Speaker: Jonathan Rhone – President and CEO of Nexterra Systems Corp.
How biomass gasification systems can enable municipal strategies to achieve ultra-clean “green” district heating and power and sustainable wastewater treatment infrastructure.
Hosted by Lee Davis, CEO, Vancity Capital Corp. and Detlef Beck, Director, Commercial Enterprises,Vancity Enterprises.
(Vancity is owner and financier of Dockside Green.)
Situated in the heart of the City of Victoria, the Dockside Green community is a LEED® Platinum targeted development located on fifteen acres of former harbourfront industrial land, with a planned total of 1.3 million square feet of mixed residential, office, retail and commercial space. The community incorporates a total environmental system in which form, structure, materials, mechanical and electrical systems are interrelated and interdependent - a largely self-sufficient, sustainable community where waste from one area provides fuel for another. It provides a dynamic environment where residents, employees, neighbouring businesses and the broader community interact in a healthy and safe environment, reclaimed from disuse and contamination.
