Important Projects' Rob Purdie Joins WindShare Board of Directors

I've been a member of the Toronto Renewable Energy Co-op (TREC) and a shareholder in the Exhibition Place turbine since 2002, and am very excited to have been elected to serve on the WindShare Board of Directors for 2005 and 2006. WindShare is a truly important project, developed by TREC to provide an opportunity for citizens to generate emissions-free electricity, and intended to profile wind power as a solution to smog and global climate change in a highly visible setting in Canada's largest city (the Ex Place turbine is the first utility-scale turbine in an urban environment in North America).

WindShare is also intended to profile community-based initiatives for the development of renewable energy, which it's doing a fantastic job of to date — WindShare was named Organization of the Year in 2004 by the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) in recognition of the co-op's efforts in "furthering the wind energy industry and the development of wind energy technology in Canada."

Again, I'm very excited to have been elected to the Board and look forward to volunteering my services to the co-op over the next 2 years.