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Vermont Governor Jim Douglas honored Green Mountain Power (NYSE:GMP)
with the state’s highest environmental award
for its work in environmental reporting and in treating petroleum
contaminated soil naturally at its land farm in Berlin. The award was
presented to Mary Powell, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating
Officer for Green Mountain Power, at a ceremony at the Statehouse.
“We were thrilled to be recognized for our
innovative work in using bio-remediation to treat soils and for our
Corporate Responsibility report, because publishing a corporate
responsibility report is an important way to communicate transparently
about where we have performed well and where we need to improve,”
said Ms. Powell. Green Mountain Power is one of only a handful of
Vermont businesses and the only utility in Vermont to publish a
corporate responsibility report.
Green Mountain Power’s Berlin Landfarm
demonstrates an effective way to treat contaminated soils with a
natural, biological process. The Company diverts approximately 7.5 tons
of petroleum-contaminated soil and debris each year from the
conventional hazardous waste stream for treatment at the Berlin
Landfarm. Green Mountain Power workers treat the petroleum-contaminated
soils by adding organic material (cow manure) to the soil, then tilling
it to encourage natural aeration. The soil is treated with the
bio-remediation process until it tests clean.
Green Mountain Power has recently published its second Corporate
Responsibility Report, which uses the Global Reporting Initiative
guidelines to describe the environmental, social and financial
dimensions of its operations. As a result of publishing its first
report, Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility in 2006 named Green
Mountain Power “Large Company Leader of the
Year.”
Recent initiatives described in the Corporate Responsibility report
include the introduction of “Greener Mountain
Power,” where customers can choose 100 percent
renewable power; the augmentation of the Green Mountain Power fleet with
seven gas/electric hybrids, vehicles getting more than 15 miles per
gallon better than the vehicles they replaced; how Green Mountain Power’s
anti-idling guidelines help to minimize unnecessary diesel emissions;
and the results of its conversion to a 20% biodiesel mix for its larger
vehicles.
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) uses a multi-stakeholder process
to develop and disseminate globally applicable Sustainability Reporting
Guidelines. The Guidelines were created for voluntary use by
organizations for reporting on the economic, environmental and social
dimensions of their activities, products and services. GRI is a
collaborator of the United Nations Environment Program and works in
cooperation with the UN Global Compact.
Green Mountain Power’s Corporate
Responsibility Report is available on line at www.greenmountainpower.biz/whoweare/green.shtml,
or to request a hard copy, call 802-655-8410 or mailing a request to
Green Mountain Power, 163 Acorn Lane, Colchester, VT 05446, Attn: Penny
Collins.