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Since this list represents citizens who are concerned about the environment and our city, I thought I would send this for your consideration. I met yesterday with Steven Snider (swsnider@hdbc.ns.ca) to discuss the wisdom of purchasing new lights for the MacDonald Bridge and it seems that the lights have already been purchased and are almost fully installed. Since I am involved in the tourism industry, I think that this is a wonderful addition to the tourism assets of our city. That said, I also think it is the wrong direction for a society that already uses much more energy than we should. This is a copy of an email I sent to Steven this morning. If you feel the same or have any other ideas, please send them along to swsnider@hdbc.ns.ca --------------- Dear Steven It was a pleasure meeting you yesterday and I thank you for taking the time to listen to my concerns. Since the lights are a "done deal," may I suggest lighting the bridge only during special occassions (e.g.Christmas) and from May 15th+- to October 15th+- (Tourist season). To conserve more energy, the hours could be reduced slightly from 1am to 12:30am or midnight. You may want to consider only turning on half the lights between dusk and 11pm and then firing up the whole bridge between 11pm and midnight. This would make the last hour "special" and worth staying up for (and again saving half the power to light the bridge). If the lights are going to be on, it would be nice to set a precedence of "lights-on" times with power conservation in mind. ..Alan ---------- -- Alan Jean-Joyce, What-A-Site Networks, Altantic Tourism Consulting Nova Scotia, Canada Ph. 902.497.6599 or 1.800.344.2824 http://www.whatasite.com e-mail: office@whatasite.com --- Alan Jean-Joyce, What-A-Site Networks/Atlantic Tourism Consulting Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Ph. 902.497.6599 email: office@whatasite.com http://www.whatasite.com -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- The preceding message was posted on Sustainable Maritimes (sust-mar) -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- A word from our lawyers ... Don't forget ... COPYRIGHT material, such as newspaper/magazine articles cannot be posted on sust-mar without the owner's permission. It's against the law. CROSS-POSTINGS (messages from other lists) are also discouraged. In either case, why not tell us something about the issue in your own words? Or ... send a clipping along with the URL where the original can be found, or directions how to join the list it came from? Takes a few more minutes, but makes for a more interesting sust-mar ... :)
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