The Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee has announced a partnership with B.C.-based firm Offsetters Clean Technology to produce the first carbon-neutral Olympics. Offsetters will provide VANOC with offset projects aimed to reduce at least 110,000 tonnes of carbon emissions. The company will also work with Games partners, sponsors and participants to reduce an additional 190,000 tonnes of emissions during the Games that are mainly caused by air travel. Proposed projects include fuel-cell technology in transit buses, energy efficiency systems, biomass gasification and hydrogen fuelling stations. Offsetters will work with B.C. firms such as Nexterra, Sempa Power, Lignol Innovations, Ballard Power and Powertech on such clean technology initiatives.
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