Alternative Energy Demonstration Sites
Small change can make all the difference.
Northern Lights Aquatic Centre (Northern Lakes College)
The Regional Environmental Action Committee recruited funds mainly from oil, gas, and pipeline companies, to provide Alternative Energy Demonstration Sites around the Lesser Slave Lake. The largest of these is located at the Northern Lakes College campus in Slave Lake, providing power for the Northern Lights Aquatic Centre, swimming pool and hot tub run by the Town of Slave Lake. In addition to the projects shown here, we also provided a solar night light for the Lesser Slave Lake Regional Waste Management Facility, and another one for the skateboard park at Hilda Bin Eben park in Slave Lake.
These solar installations were paid for largely by oil, gas, and fossil fuel companies. REAC wants to show that fossil fuel companies have the potential to evolve into energy companies.
On Earthday 2014, REAC provided two Alternative Energy Sites in the Town of Slave Lake:
North Country School
Our first Alternative Energy Demonstration Site was in Joussard, AB and enabled the North Country School to run entirely on the Power of The Sun! This school ran 6 computers, lighting and sound equipment from a bank of 10 solar panels, two inverters and 6 batteries.
Lesser Slave Lake North Country Community Association
In accord with riparian values, Solar Power provided energy to run a pump to water the cattle, so that they do not trample the Driftpile River bed.
Initiated in 1993, this was one of the very first solar cattle watering systems in Alberta. Now these systems are in common use.
