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Going global is the key. Industry experts agree that this is a strategy that will take our promising, but still maturing, technology industry to the next level.

"It's a global marketplace now," says Harvey Doane of Nova Scotia Business Inc. "We have to understand where the opportunities are and take advantage of them."

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The Town of Lunenburg is planning to replace 532 high-pressure sodium street lights with more cost efficient units.

Last fall, the town received 48 new light-emitting diode (LED) street lights, compliments of a pilot project through the ecoNova Scotia for Clean Air and Climate Change program.

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Take a tour around the Model Town of an evening and take note of Maple Drive. There is something distinctly different about the quality of light filtering down from the streetlights on the little crescent off Ash Street.

Unlike the patchy, orange haze put out by high-pressure sodium streetlights, Maple Drive is lit by LEDs, which provide a light that is almost pure white. Not only does this improve visibility, according to the fixture's manufacturer LED Roadway Lighting Ltd, but also provide 65 per cent of average energy savings over traditional streetlights.

That, and they are guaranteed to last five years.

"Government is also moving to take advantage of new jobs in the green economy. In September, through Nova Scotia Business Incorporated, the province made a $6-million equity investment in LED Roadway Lighting.

This company's cutting-edge street lighting technology uses up to 80% less electricity, provides better lighting and has the potential to become a world-class leader in this field. LED Roadway is being given a trial run across this continent and Annapolis Royal will soon have LED Roadway Lightning in their community."

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Premier's Office

Premier Darrell Dexter, today, Dec. 15, joined provincial and territorial leaders from Canada, and other leaders from around the world in signing a 2009 declaration in Copenhagen to pursue action and policies to reduce climate change.

Premier Dexter signed the Copenhagen Statement of Federated States and Regional Governments to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Searching for a way to use its lighting and electronics technology in a product with high-performance standards and a sizable market, LED Roadway Lighting Ltd. only had to look down the street.

The small Halifax Company focused its attention on the ubiquitous street lamps found in communities everywhere. Some 500 million of them line highways and roads, and an additional 100 million or so illuminate parking lots worldwide.

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