Industry launches Power of Wind Blog Contest
The Canadian Wind Energy Association has launched the Power of Wind Blog Contest with bursary prizes.
Students entering post-secondary education can submit a 300 word blog on the subject of wind energy. They can write about what wind energy means to them and why they think it should be a part of the future energy mix.
The first prize is a $2,000 bursary for post-secondary studies and the opportunity to climb the turbine at Exhibition Place in Toronto.
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The second and third prizes are bursaries worth $500 and $250, respectively.
Blog entries need to be submitted by Sept.15, and the winners will be announced at the Canadian Wind Energy Association’s awards banquet in Toronto, where the first prize winner will present the winning essay. For more information, visit www.friendsofwind.ca.
Easy weed identification
Full colour posters identifying weeds that Albertans may encounter are now available.
The four posters are listed on Alberta Agriculture’s website and linked to weeds, noxious weeds, Alberta invasive hawkweeds and know your knapweeds.
Ag council holds elections
Clinton Monchuk of Chicken Farmers of Saskatchewan and Michael Nickerson of the University of Saskatchewan’s agriculture college have joined the Agriculture Council of Saskatchewan’s board of directors.
They join Kirk Flaman of the Saskatchewan Seed Potato Growers Association, who has served on the board for three years and was re-elected to another three-year term.
Allen Kuhlmann of the Saskatchewan Flax Development Commission, Dan Prefontaine of the Saskatchewan Food Industry Development Centre, Nial Kuyek of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan, Joy Smith of the Saskatchewan Egg Producers and Tim Wiens of the Saskatchewan Canola Development Commission are also on the board.
Retiring board member Jason Dean retires after six years on the board. He represented the Saskatchewan Cattle Feeders Association. He served on the executive committee this past year as secretary-treasurer.
Blair Goldade, a former senior project officer, takes over as executive director from Laurie Dmytryshyn, who recently resigned to take on a new position with PIC Investment Group.
The board approved 41 projects in 2011-12 for a Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program commitment of $3.2 million. In the 16 years that the council has been delivering adaptation programming on behalf of Agriculture Canada, $44.76 million has been committed to 1,309 projects.
