BURNSIDE ECO-INDUSTRIAL PARK
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Managing Entity: Halifax Regional Municipality Industrial Commission
Contract Person's Name: Raymond Cote
Address : 1312 Robie Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H3E2
Phone: (902) 494-3632 Fax : (902) 494-3728 E-mail : rcote @ is.dal.ca

Alternate Contact Person: W. Wayne Barchard
Phone: (902) 426-4695 Fax : (902) 426-8373 E-mail : wayne.barchard @ ec.gc.ca

EIPs Key features.

  • 6 year multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional study of requirements;
  • cooperative partnership among academic, 3 levels of government, owners, developers and tenants;
  • phases/retrofitting and planning;
  • innumerable, constantly changing SMEs.



What constitutes success?

  • Commitment from park owners;
  • Flexibility in implementation of Environmental regulations;
  • Participation by capital owners;
  • Appropriate economic instruments;
  • Active information, education and interpretation; and
  • A technical extension service.


EIP linkages.

  • System Definition [Surveys and database]; Industrial, social, brainpower inventories
  • Food Web [Materials Flow Database];
  • Energy Conservation [Energy Audits];
  • Resource Conservation [Waste Audits, and Materials Exchange];
  • Scavengers and Decomposers [Recyclers and Waste Managers];
  • Information Exchange [Cleaner Production Centre Business Leaders Forum, Newspaper Column].

 

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Recruiting process.
(Not yet developed)


Resources available.

  • Federal-Provincial Sustainable Development Fund;
  • The Donner Foundation;
  • Halifax Regional Municipality; and
  • Federal and Provincial Governments three Academic Institution


Strategy to continue progressing.

  • United Nation Environmental Program-Industrial Estate Guideline;
  • Work with the new HRM Industrial Development Commission;
  • Revision of the Regulatory Structure (Sewer Bylaw, Solid Waste Strategy, Provincial and Federal Acts );
  • Federal and Provincial Pollution Prevention Strategies;
  • Newest Phases of Burnside using some of the Design Criteria; and
  • Continuation of Leader's Forum, regular Newspaper columns.


What is missing?

  • Firm commitment by the owners, builders and capital managers;
  • A supportive Regulatory Structure; and
  • Stable funding for the Extension Program.



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Case Study Source: Eco-Industrial Park (EIP) Workshop, Cape Charles, Va., October 17-18, 1996.