"Almost 96% of those surveyed in a pilot project by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) found the DBT required too much paperwork, requests from multiple authorities for a range of documents including electricity bills, ration cards, bank passbooks and identification cards. This represents a non-trivial cost to access the reengineered process."
"Right now, the easiest market is for the replacement of coal," Grosshans said. (The province's ban on coal for heating takes effect July 1, 2017.) "Cattail is an excellent biomass heat source, like wood."
A look at some of the research on the horizon at IISD-ELA.
"Best known for saving the Experimental Lake Area, the Winnipeg-based International Institute for Sustainable Development was also among the first think-tanks with a global reach to paint the economy green. We sat down with Henry David Venema, IISD's chief scientist and vice-president for business development, to talk about environmental challenges facing Manitoba."
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