[getsmart-l] Upcoming energy events - Sept 11 and 12 in Toronto

[Janet May]

Mr. David Hughes has spent a lifetime studying the supply side of Canada's
energy question at NRCan and the Canadian Geological Survey.  Quite
literally no one in the world knows more about this subject than he and only
a handful know as much.  

 

When such a man tells us that the conservation not generation offers us by
far our best chance at a comfortable future it would be best that we all
stop to listen.

 

On September 11 he will give a talk in Council Chamber that has made him
justly famous in energy and sustainability circles throughout North America.


 

On September 12 he will participate on a panel in a Toronto City Hall
Committee room #4.

 

It is our sincerest hope that we will see you on these dates and I can
promise you that these two evenings will be among the richest information
sessions of the year and revelatory for even the most informed on the
towering twin challenges of our time: Energy and Sustainability.   

 

EVENT DESCRIPTION: 

 

Mr. David Hughes is a geoscientist for NRCan and the Canadian Geological
Survey who has graciously agreed to be available in Toronto for two evenings
- September 11th and 12th.  


The presentation on Tuesday, Sept. 11 will be from 7 to 9 pm in Toronto City
Hall Council Chamber and is titled:

 

'The Future of Energy: Where have we been & where are we going?'

 

Mr. Hughes will speak to the issue of Energy Security regionally, nationally
and globally and to the geological data which supports his call for the
absolute necessity for the most rapid transition possible from fossil fuels
to conservation and renewables. This call is of course exactly in line with
the call being made by those scientists, activists and policy makers
concerned with Global Warming which brings us to logically enough to our
second event.

Sept. 12, 7 to 10 pm: Panel Discussion. Toronto, City Hall Committee room
#4.  


'Canadian Energy Security in the context of Climate & Supply Questions'


 On the Sept. 12 panel will be David Hughes of NRCan, Ralph Torrie of ICF,
Cherise Burda of Pembina and Enbridge Gas has also been asked to supply a
speaker.

Mr. Hughes is in town on his way to a Roundtable on Climate Change and
Energy hosted by the Breuninger Foundation, and cosponsored by Science for
Peace and the David Suzuki Foundation a good example of the kind of respect
his work is accorded. 

 

Ralph Torrie is today a consultant for ICF and for decades has been a
leading proponent for the ecological and climatic benefits to energy
efficiency and a reduction of our ecological footprint.  He is also someone
who has over the years justly earned a reputation for being as balanced as
he is wise and humorous.

 

Cherise Burda comes to us from easily one of the most important research
institutes on the twin challenges of Energy & Emissions the Pembina
Institute and we hope to have Malini Ghiridar the person in charge of energy
strategy for Enbridge Gas here in Ontario.  


To all of you who can make it we look forward to seeing you there.  To any
of you who would like to become involved in helping promote these events
please feel free to email or call me. Jeffberg at rogers.com (416 604 0851) &
our website is www.postcarbontoronto.org <http://www.postcarbontoronto.org/>


 

 

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