GBC 2010 Annual Dinner

The Great Basin Chapter of A&WMA will hold it's annual Social and Dinner on Thursday April 29th, 2010 at the Alta Club at 100 East and South Temple. Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker will be our keynote speaker. In addition, Vicki Bennett, Director of the Mayor’s office of sustainability and the environment will be in attendance. More details coming soon.

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2010 Spring Facility Tour

What: Great Basin Chapter of Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) Spring Facility Tour

When: Friday April 9th at 2 pm

Where: PacifiCorp Gadsby Power Plant 1359 West North Temple Meet in parking lot east of main building (click here for map)

Bring: Safety glasses and hardhat (If you have them). You must wear steel toe shoes. Your fellow colleagues interested in participating in the A&WMA.

RSVP to: Matt Armstrong (801) 584-6354

Facility operations description: The PacifiCorp Gadsby Power Plant is a natural gas-fired electric generating plant consisting of three steam boilers (Units #1, #2, and #3) and three combustion gas turbines. Unit #1 is a 65 MW unit constructed in 1951, Unit #2 is an 80 MW unit constructed in 1952, and Unit #3 is a 105 MW unit constructed in 1955. Three 43.5 MW LM 6000 natural gas-fueled simple cycle gas turbine engines were added in 2002.

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Air and Waste Management Association’s (A&WMA) 2010 High School Essay Contest.

This year's contest, “Energy and the Environment: Changing our Communities, our Schools and our World,” provides high school students in grades 9-12 the chance to share their thoughts on environmental issues. The deadline for the essay submissions is on Earth Day – Thursday, April 22, 2010. The contest gives students the chance to compete for prize money and the opportunity to be recognized for their work at the honors and awards ceremony at A&WMA’s 103rd Annual Conference & Exhibition (ACE) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 22-25, 2010. Three attachments are available 1) contest flyer, 2) essay contest rules, and 3) the reprint of the winning essay from 2009, featured in A&WMA’s monthly magazine, EM. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Elgina McCoy at elgina.mccoy@basf.com or 734.324.6206, or email your questions to awma-high-school-essay-contest@googlegroups.com.