Environmental Stewardship

Like many businesses, Saint John Industrial Parks Ltd. has made environmental stewardship a priority, and with good reason. It's more than preserving the natural resources that drive New Brunswick's economy. It ensures a better quality of life for us, and for our children.

In that spirit, we have undertaken several Environmental Stewardship and Park Beautification projects over the past year. A couple of these initiatives were made possible thanks to partnerships with companies in our parks, and our community. They demonstrate our commitment to identifying and implementing innovative sustainable practices, and processes, and making them a part of all we do. Our goal now is to build on these efforts, and to invite more businesses to join us as Partners in Growth.

Our Achievements Include:

EMERA PIPELINE CROSSING
With Emera as our partner we undertook a remediation process on this land. Our efforts included reinstatement of disturbed lands, soil erosion controls - highway mix seeding, mature plantings, gentle sloping of the ditches as well as landscaping and enhancements of a site for carpool parking.

BEAUTIFICATION INITIATIVE
Our $250,000 investment in landscaping improved Spruce Lake's aesthetics, creating benefits for both tenants and residents of the community. This initiative included countless street trees, reinstated ditches with gentle sloping and landscaped improvements to key areas.

BLUE BIN RECYCLING
We provided Fundy Solid Regional Waste with a prominent easy to access location to boost participation in its recycling program.

PARK N' RIDE
In partnership with the Saint John Parking and Transit Commissions, we established this new Park N' Ride site along King William Road to support and enable tenants and the Lorneville Community to use public transportation. By reducing the number of cars on the road, we help protect air quality, among other benefits.

LORNEVILLE COMMUNITY ENTRANCE
In partnership with the Lorneville Community Association, we will support the design, build and installation of a new community entrance sign, complete with associated landscaping. This work builds on landscaping initiatives proximate the Lorneville Community entrance completed in 2010.

STORM WATER CONTROL
We are working closely with the City of Saint John's engineering department to ensure surface water is controlled on development sites through site specific design as well as storm ponds. This will help reduce the surface speed of storm water and help prevent sediment from entering the ecosystem.