FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
[CALGARY, ALBERTA— March 3, 2009] Bantrel Co. today announced that it is
offsetting its carbon emissions with Carbonfund.org, North America’s leading nonprofit carbon reduction and offset organization.
In doing so, Bantrel becomes the first CarbonFree® engineering, procurement
and construction company in the world. As a member of Carbonfund.org’s
CarbonFree® Partner Program, Bantrel joins a movement of businesses and
organizations that are leading the fight against global warming.
Carbonfund.org supports renewable energy, energy efficiency, and
reforestation projects around the world to reduce CO2 pollution and help
hasten our transition to a clean energy future.
"Carbonfund.org applauds Bantrel's leadership and commitment to addressing
the problem of climate change," said Carbonfund.org President Eric Carlson.
"Bantrel’s carbon reduction and offset program serves as an example for all
Canadian companies and is supporting our market transformation to a clean
energy future."
Bantrel manages its carbon emissions in a number of ways: the company
employs energy-saving measures in corporate buildings and facilities;
aggressively promotes waste and consumption minimization; reuse and
recycling of building materials; minimizes employee air travel and makes
energy investments through Carbonfund.org to offset carbon emissions it
cannot avoid producing.
“Environmental sustainability touches every part of Bantrel’s operations,
from the way we design our plants to how we execute our projects,” says
Bantrel Vice President Mike Gordon, who chairs the company’s corporate
Environmental Steering Committee.
“Although we will always be tied to our traditional business lines, we
understand that there is a growing demand for more corporate responsibility
with respect to energy development, whatever that energy might be - fossil or
alternative. Our new paradigm is to be responsible and be active: we have
always had the expertise, but now we have the desire to be a direct part of
the solution. That is why we, as a company, have been transforming our core
value system to include environmental stewardship.”
And so Bantrel is actively seeking project development partners to help
develop new carbon neutral energy projects. “This is a very strategic way
that we’re challenging the status quo in the energy industry,” continues
Gordon.
As well as reducing its own environmental impacts, Bantrel has been
supporting employees with the aim of reducing their personal CO2 emissions.
Bantrel offers carpooling incentives for staff, sponsors environmental
workshops and prominently promotes environmental awareness using the
corporate intranet.
In addition, Bantrel is the only company in the EPC industry that uses
SEE-IT™ from Visible Strategies to manage and demonstrate its environmental
progress in a visually-engaging and transparent fashion. Bantrel’s
stakeholders can visit www.bantrel.com to see how the company measures up in
areas such as greenhouse gas emissions, paper usage and environmentally
conscious procurement.
About Bantrel Co.
Bantrel is an engineering, procurement and construction company operating in
the energy, chemical and power industries. Founded in 1983, with a current
portfolio of projects valued in excess of $20 billion, Bantrel designs and
builds some of the largest and most complex industrial facilities in Canada.
Bantrel is headquartered in Calgary, with offices in Edmonton and Toronto.
About Carbonfund.org
Carbonfund.org is North America’s leading nonprofit carbon reduction and
offset organization, making it easy and affordable for individuals,
businesses and organizations to reduce their climate impact. Carbon offsets
enable individuals and businesses to reduce carbon dioxide emissions they
are responsible for in their everyday lives by supporting renewable energy,
energy efficiency and reforestation projects where they are most cost
effective. Carbonfund.org works with over 1,000 corporate and nonprofit
partners including Volkswagen, Motorola, JetBlue, Discovery, Hyundai, Orbitz,
and Staples.
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