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Canadian communications provider Aliant has released its 2006 sustainability report for Atlantic Canada.

According to the report, in 2006 :

• Nearly 46,000 customers and employees switched to paperless billing by the end of 2006 resulting in savings of more than 4 million sheets of paper or 492 mature trees.
• By using tele-conferencing services in 2006, rather than travel, employees and customers saved 118,272 tonnes of CO2e emissions.
• Twenty-nine percent of fuel storage tanks (119 in total) were upgraded to reduce risk to the environment.
• Six hundred tonnes of office waste was recycled. 
• A program unique to remote radio stations in Labrador was expanded, producing additional clean energy through solar and wind….

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