Environmental Vision

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Clean Water Technologies

Empowering Markets

Power and Water Conservation

Protecting the Watershed

EPCOR's environmental vision

From cleaning up heavy-metal runoff from an abandoned copper mine on the shores of Howe Sound, British Columbia, to advocating true-cost pricing strategies that promote resource conservation, EPCOR's long-term vision is to leave the environment in a better state than when we first encountered it.

Our pursuit of excellence has taken us across Canada and the United States to seek better and more environmentally efficient ways to satisfy our customers' energy and water needs.

Protecting the watershed

EPCOR has also invested significantly in watershed protection and wastewater treatment, ensuring our communities can draw safe and clean drinking water now and in the future.

Applying environmental water technologies

In 2006, EPCOR began treating runoff bound for Howe Sound in British Columbia. In its first year, the Britannia Mine Water Treatment Plant removed 250,000 kg of heavy metal that would have polluted the marine environment.

The Sierra Legal Defence Fund refers to Edmonton as a city renowned for the high quality of its water treatment in Canada's Drinking Water Report Card, October 2006.

EPCOR is a Canadian leader in installing and operating new water treatment technologies. Edmonton was the first major Canadian city to enjoy drinking water treated with ultraviolet disinfection, later bringing the technology to smaller communities and advising others on installation.

Reducing environmental impacts by empowering markets

EPCOR is actively involved in a variety of projects designed to empower North American markets to reduce the environmental impacts of water treatment. We focus on:

promoting water conservation and infrastructure renewal
advocating strongly for setting true-cost pricing strategies that promote resource conservation.

Leading in conservation and helping our customers do the same

EPCOR wants you to be aware of all the tricks and tips you can use to conserve energy and water. We also enthusiastically support our customers who would like to begin generating their own power.
Read more about what EPCOR and our customers are doing to conserve power and water