{"id":13278,"date":"2018-12-04T19:40:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T00:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/?p=13278"},"modified":"2018-12-21T12:17:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T17:17:05","slug":"answering-the-call-to-conserve-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/answering-the-call-to-conserve-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Answering the call to conserve energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/FortisBC-jpg-640.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13284 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/FortisBC-jpg-640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"403\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>December 10, 2018 &#8211; BC\u2019s natural gas supply continues to be limited this winter in the wake of the Enbridge pipeline rupture near Prince George in October.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the call by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortisbc.com\/MediaCentre\/BCsNaturalGasSupplyIsLimited\/Pages\/default.aspx?utm_campaign=epr&amp;utm_content=reduceyouruse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FortisBC<\/a> for customers to adopt conservation measures, New Westminster Schools is continuing to lower temperatures across the District until the situation is fully resolved. We have temporarily set temperatures in our schools at 21 degrees from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and at 18 degrees from 12 p.m. to 8 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>We are participating with other school districts and large natural gas consumers to help ensure gas reserves are adequate to meet the region\u2019s needs. However, as colder winter weather settles in, we suggest all staff and students dress accordingly to accommodate the reduction in temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any concerns or questions, please contact your school principal. For more information, please see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bced.gov.bc.ca\/bulletin\/20181130\/fortisbc-natural-gas-supply.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BC Ministry of Education bulletin.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your continued support and participation.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p>See: <a href=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Letter-to-Parents-181210-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter from Karim Hachlaf, Superintendent of Schools, <\/a>sent to parents and guardians December 10, 2018.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 10, 2018 &#8211; BC\u2019s natural gas supply continues to be limited this winter in the wake of the Enbridge pipeline rupture near Prince George in October. In response to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school-news","category-featured-events","category-events-and-announcements","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13278"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13289,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13278\/revisions\/13289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}