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Rebates eyed in emissions battle BY JOHN COTTER THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta is preparing a rebate program to encourage homeowners to purchase energyefficient appliances and help the province reduce

greenhouse gas emissions. Environment Minister Robin Campbell said the program would cost up to $30 million in the first year. He wants to make the announcement in early October. “We are looking at incentives for residential homes. Looking at people replacing their furnaces,

fridges, washer-dryers,� he said. “One of the holdups right now that we are still discussing is if we could make a big enough incentive for some people . . . (who) wanted to look at solar for their homes.�

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Holocaust denier dead at age 80 BY ADVOCATE STAFF

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Lacombe High School Grade 11 student Katlyn Gibson reacts after drinking a shot of wheat grass offered to her by school sign language interpreter Carrie Lisafeld, right, during a year-end celebration at the school on Thursday. During the event, the EcoVision Club and the Little Green Thumbs program participants celebrated the success of the program including the Emerald Awards, Caring for our Watershed Awards and completion of the aquaponics structure on the school campus. Elementary school aged children from Lacombe and Red Deer also took part in the days activities touring the facilities, making pizzas with ingredients grown at the school, planting herbs, berries and sunflowers.

Plastics initiative turning waste into energy BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A Mountain View Regional Waste Management Commission plastics initiative has expanded far beyond its original intent and is now involved in turning that waste into energy. Starting as a pilot project, the waste commission accepted farm plastics, including twine, net wrap, tarps and silage plastic at the Olds transfer station. A one-day trial in 2007 hauled in 19,610 kg of farm plastics. In its early stages, the plastics were going as far away as Minnesota before they were recycled. The farm plastics recycling project netted the commission an honourable mention from the minister’s awards for municipal excellence. Now the project has expanded and earned more recognition: an Action Hero Award from the Parkland Airshed Management Zone. Al Graham, waste commission chief administrative officer, said the group now accepts all plastics, which are being recycled just 40 minutes down Hwy 2 in Airdrie. “We just solidified a contract with Durham Energy

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Recovery of Airdrie where we will have all classes of plastics taken right out of our landfill and moved through Durham’s technology to revert all plastics back to diesel fuel,� said Graham. “We’re pretty proud to be cutting edge with this.� Graham said a chance meeting with Peter Brown, Durham Energy Recovery president, led to the expanded project. Through anhydrous pyrolysis, which extracts fuel from end-of-life plastics, the plastic sent to Durham is being converted into both methane and diesel fuel. While it covers all classes of plastics, Graham said they aren’t taking items that would fall under bottle returns. He said there is a good system in place through the Alberta Beverage Container Recycling Corp. and they have no interest in changing that. “We are very pleased to have this alliance,� said Graham. “We have to stop filling these holes in the ground. That’s not our purpose anymore.� The Durham Energy plant isn’t at full capacity yet. Graham said they have about 300 tonnes of plastic either waiting there or ready to be transported from their site.

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Holocaust denier Jim Keegstra, who lost a 12-year court battle that pitted his freedom of expression against Canada’s hate law, has died in Red Deer. He was 80 years old. Keegstra was a former teacher and mayor of Eckville who came to national attention in the summer of 1983 when Canadians learned the public high school social studies instructor had for years been teaching his students about a Jewish conspiracy. Keegstra had taught that “treacherous� and “subversive� Jews were to blame for historic calamities, were trying to rule the world and destroy the Christian way of life. He claimed Jews created the Holocaust to “gain sympathy.� But these hateful views were largely ignored by the school principal until the outraged parents of an Eckville student took the issue to the school board and the Advocate reported on it. Keegstra was dismissed from his job and had his teaching certificate revoked after disregarding warnings to stop teaching students anti-Semitic content. Political pressure began building to have him charged under national hate laws after a rookie rural member of Alberta’s legislature was also quoted in the media as doubting the Holocaust. On Jan. 11, 1984, Alberta’s Attorney General charged Keegstra for criminally promoting hatred against an identifiable group, although no successful prosecution had ever been made before under Canada’s 1970 hate law. Keegstra argued this charge unreasonably infringed on his Charter of Rights guarantee of free expression, as well as his presumption of innocence. After two long trials, three hearings in the Supreme Court of Canada, and six trials and appeals in Alberta, which cost taxpayers about $1 million, Keegstra finally lost all legal avenues.

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Calgary man killed in skydiving accident BY ADVOCATE STAFF A 34-year-old Calgary man died while skydiving near Innisfail airport on Saturday night. Mike Koo, an experienced skydiver, died during an evening skydive. Innisfail RCMP said they were called to the scene west of Innisfail at 9 p.m. along with EMS. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The man was reported to be an experienced skydiver who had completed several other successful jumps that day.

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