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GreenWashing Nanaimo Style – It’s All in the Numbers

It’s all in the numbers. On reading about the Green Municipal Funding for the Cogeneration System at the Regional District of Nanaimo Wastewater Treatment Facility, you’d imagine that the system was making a huge dent in the electricity required to power Vancouver Island. Cogeneration at [Wastewater Treatment Facility] will significantly offset electricity demands on Vancouver …

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GreenWashing the Vancouver Sun

The Vancouver Sun thinks that by people signing up for electronic invoices, rather than paper ones, that it is helping the environment. Can someone please remind these people that they run a newspaper? Another case of corporate greenwashing that is meaninless when taken in context of the whole operation.