Canada At A Glance: AM.

Resource News International,  March, 2008  

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Byline: Resource News International

WINNIPEG, MB, Mar 28, 2008 (Resource News International via COMTEX) -- The following is a quick glimpse of the news making the headlines in Canada.

 
CANADIANS EMBRACE EARTH HOUR 
     TORONTO   The coastal hamlet of Hartley Bay, B.C., has 
plenty of reasons to embrace Earth Hour. 

All year long, 24 hours a day, a diesel generator powers the tiny First Nations community of 60 or so homes located 630 kilometres north of Vancouver. The diesel alone costs more than $500,000 per year, about ten times more per capita than average electricity costs ...

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