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Lögberg-Heimskringla - 03.10.2003, Qupperneq 1

Lögberg-Heimskringla - 03.10.2003, Qupperneq 1
Week at a glance A soul-stirring concert Special Feature: New lceland Youth Choir Tours lceland Page 3 Pages 5 to 8 Friday, 3 October 2003 • Number 34 / Númer 34 • Föstudagur, 3 október, 2003 Lögberg Lögberg stofnað 14! janúar 1888 Heimskringla stofnað 9. september 1886 Sameinuð 20. ágúst 1959 Heimskringla The Icelandic Weekly www.logberg.com PAP Registration no. 08000 Agreement no. 1402161 117th year /117. Árgangur ISSN 0047-4967 Manitoba and Iceland Sign MOU to Promote Hydrogen Development Valgerður Sverrisdóttir (right) and Tim Sale (second from left) sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Manitoba and Iceland Manitoba’s leadership in transportation and hydro- gen production has been enhanced as Energy, Science and Technology Minister Tim Sale and Iceland Minister of Industry and Commerce Val- gerður Sverrisdóttir signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on hydrogen develop- ment last week. “Manitoba and Iceland share many cultural and busi- ness ties as well as a common interest in renewable energy and hydrogen,” said Sale. “Ice- land has taken a leadership role and gained considerable profile globally in the area of hydrogen development. The agreement will promote greater partner- ships in this area between our two jurisdictions and will enable Manitoba to build on Mark Myrowich found his inspiration in the strangest place, it was while sit- ting in the bottom of a ditch next to a buming field of straw. our recently unveiled initiatives including a preliminary report on hydrogen development and a unique hybrid fuel cell bus demonstration project.” The MOU states that Man- itoba and Iceland will pursue the potential for joint initiatives on hydrogen development. The two jurisdictions will also investigate the benefits of the exchange of people and infor- mation, and joint research and training initiatives, in relation to hydrogen development activ- ities. The agreement could lead to an important mutual bridge between North American and European markets. “Manitoba and Iceland have strong cultural ties all the way back to the 1870s and share a similar focus in many fields like energy,” said Valgerður. The president of Win- nipeg-based ErosionControl- Blanket.com explained that when he and some co-workers were installing a California- “One element of our policy is to create here in Iceland a favourable Platform for Inter- national Hydrogen Research. We in Iceland and Canada have possibilities to realize our plans for hydrogen development by using our vision, technology, opportunities, co-operation and knowledge. We have long way to go - but nothing happens without a dream, and we must have a dream for a better world.” The Government of Iceland has made public its plans for enhancing development towards a future hydrogen economy including the produc- tion of hydrogen, the use of fuel cells for transportation purpos- es, and the development of hydrogen related expertise and technology. Iceland has made made, erosion-control blanket in a ditch near Killamey four years ago when he noticed a farmer burning straw in an adjacent field. strides to establish itself as an intemational leader in adoption of hydrogen including impor- tant intemational partnerships with companies such as Shell, PHOTO COURTESY OF MORGUNBLAÐIÐ/JIM SMART Norsk Hydro and Daimler- Chrysler. Please see Manitoba and lcetand sign on Page 4 Icelandic Entrepreneur Wins an Award PHOTO BY JEFF DE BODY/WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Mark Myrowich, (left) President of ErosionControlBlanket.com with Dennis Deley, acting regional director, display samples of product The imported blanket they were installing was made from straw and netting, Mark said, and wasn’t very well made. “That’s when it kind of went, ‘Bing! That’s when I started thinking, ‘Why are we bringing these straw blankets in from so far away when we’ve got all of this unused straw right here.? We’ve got so much, they’re buming it!’.” So within about a year, Mark Myrowich launched his own erosion-control blanket manufacturing company ECB.com featured in the L-H recently for the grand opening of their new Riverton plant. In the three years since, the com- pany has gone on to develop two more products — a sedi- ment-control device for trap- ping sediment in ditches and a cover for earthen manure-stor- age lagoons. That ablity for developing innovative, environmentally friendly new products eamed ECB.com the honour of being named the 2003 winner of the Prairie Regional Innovation Award for Sustainable Develop- ment. The award is presented jointly each year by the Nation- al Research Council Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) and the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters to recognize innovative excellence related to sustainable develop- ment. ECB.com is now in the mn- ning for the National Award for Sustainable Development with the six other regional winners chosen from across the country. The award will be presented during the CME’s 2003 annual conference next month in Toronto. The company exports about ninety fíve per cent of its prod- ucts to the United States, most- ly to distributors in the Mid- west. The other fíve per cent are sold in Western Canada. Although he has been talking to distributors from Iceland, Mark said he expects most of the company’s future sales growth to come from the North Ameri- can market. Source: Winnipeg Free Press, Murray McNeil Creoting Community • Sköþum Sámfélag

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