Date: 18 September 2007
Glen Water, is extending the deadline for its recently launched Environmental Photography competition to give more budding ‘green’ photographers the opportunity to win a top-of-the-range mountain bike and safety helmet
Organised in response to World Environment Day, which this year focuses on global warming or ‘Melting Ice - a hot topic’, the competition deadline has been moved to the end of September.
All entries must either depict man-made activities that are contributing towards climate change or illustrate what the effects of global warming mean to the individual photographer.
With three separate age group categories including, 10-15 year olds, 15-21 year olds, and 21 year olds and over, all successful entrant’s photographs will be put on display at a specially held exhibition in Belfast.
The decision to move the deadline was made after a number of entrants contacted Glen Water asking for more time to come up with creative ways to depict the effects that pollution is having on our climate.
Two winners selected from each category will receive top-of-the-range bicycles with safety helmets and have their work placed on the Glen Water website.
“The aim of the competition is to encourage people to stop and think about what man-made factors are negatively impacting upon the environment, specifically our climate,” said Jim Conlon, General Manager, Glen Water.
Glen Water has been selected by Northern Ireland Water to deliver Project Omega a £122 million PPP programme that will help to create healthier, cleaner beaches along the North Down/Ards coastline and allow Northern Ireland to meet strict new EU regulations on water quality.
An environmentally forward thinking company, Glen Waterdeploys a number of innovative environmentally sustainable construction techniques at all of its building sites.
“As a matter of course we employ a number of environmentally friendly work practices in all of our sites. These range from the re-use of all excavated materials, to comprehensive waste disposal techniques and site-to-site car sharing to reduce carbon emissions,” said Peter Dew, Project Leader, Laing O’Rourke.
A judging panel made up of representatives from Glen Water, Northern Ireland Water, the President of the Northern Ireland Photographic Association and a local professional photographer will decide on the competition winners, to be announced in October.
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Pictured (l-r) are Jim Conlon General Manager, Glen Water and Pete Dew Project Leader, Laing O'Rourke announcing the extension of Glen Water's Environmental Photography Competition.