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Spring means warm weather, flowers and plants

A steady stream of shoppers looking for plants passed through Arch Greenhouses in Edmonton during the Victoria Day long weekend.ED KAISER

Researchers take
a lesson from nature
Team working to capture carbon
by producing plants from scratch
DAV E L A Z Z A R I N O

A carbon-capturing process being

developed by a group of Edmonton researchers could land them
big money and international fame.
The idea? Copying what plants do.
Nature itself can be the best
teacher to learn from, said Ehsan
Jenab, project lead for the carbon

transformation project at Edmontons Ingenuity Lab, a science and

innovation lab funded by the Sherwood Park-based Climate Change
and Emissions Management Corporation.
The project has a team of researchers working to artificially
produce the carbon sequestering
properties of plants by creating the

individual steps of the carbon cycle

and then putting them together in
a bio-reactor.
In essence, theyre making trees
from scratch.
If you look at the leaf, it can be
a really tiny energy factory, Jenab
said.
All of these processes are happening in the plant cells.
The chloroplasts, he said, are the
main part of that factory, converting CO2 into intermediate sugars
using 13 different enzymes during
the carbon cycle.

Teachers association
pushing support
for vulnerable citizens
DA M I E N W O O D

Support for the emotional

health of two unique groups of students and the teachers responsible
for providing them an education
became a focus of discussion at
the Alberta Teachers Association
annual meeting in Calgary this
weekend.
Fort McMurrays children, and
their teachers, have been forced to
find temporary accommodations
across the province.
And nobody knows yet what emotional hardships theyll face when
they pick up again and go home,
ATA president Mark Ramsankar
said.
You have traumatized individuals dealing with traumatized
children, he said of the teachers
and students, dealing now with the
aftermath of a devastating wildfire
and the evacuation of Fort McMurray.
These were very unique scenarios.
There will be issues that will
arise and we want to be prepared
to support children and communities.
The impact on the community
wont be known until they begin to
rebuild, (and) the ongoing assistance even after the city is rebuilt
is something that needs to be addressed.
Similarly, not so long ago it
couldnt have been known that
Albertas schools would be opening their doors to a large influx of
new students from Syrian refugee
families.
That equally unique scenario has
brought with it a need to address a
pretty significant language barrier,
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as well as children who in some

cases have never been in a formal
school setting, and the emotional
effects of both.
The support isnt in place to
meet the needs of kids, and this is
problematic for teachers, he said.
Alberta classrooms are very

By mimicking the processes

including creating the individual
enzymes through fermentation
the team hopes to be able to trap
carbon dioxide, using light as an
input energy source, and produce
byproducts like nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide.
Its a mouthful to say but, along
with hydrogen, it combines to
NADH, a widely used ingredient
in the pharmaceutical industry.
All of these sugar phosphates
are the initial reactants for producing value-added chemicals,
said Jenab.
There is a huge market demand
for that.
As in plants, some of the other
byproducts are recycled back into
the initial reactions and make the
entire process far more efficient,
something Jenab says makes the
project enticing to governments
looking to increase energy effi-

ciency as global populations and

energy use continue to rise.
The team is in the stage of developing the enzymes and incorporating them into the larger system but
they hope to be ready to demonstrate it for consideration at the
first stage of the Carbon XPrize
competition in 2017.
If they manage to move past the
first two rounds, it could mean
$2.5 million in prize money and if
they win the entire thing another
$7.5 million could be up for grabs.
Jenab says that the exposure to
industry could be even more lucrative.
The lab, which has a number of
other projects on the go, is also
working on a 4D printer, which
promises to use 3D printing technology to create structures made
of living biological material.
dlazzarino@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/SUNDaveLazz

Notice of
Development Permits
The following development permits have been approved under the terms of the Edmonton
Zoning Bylaw #12800. For more information about these permits, please call the Customer
Information Centre, Sustainable Development Department, at 311.

Mark Ramsankar

diverse, so where one classroom

may be experiencing a lot of issues
another classroom maybe not so
much some situations may require more support, others not so
much.

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in the City of Edmonton

2016 property tax notices mailed today

Your property tax bill includes municipal taxes as well as provincial education taxes.
Municipal taxes help pay for civic services such as police, fire rescue, public
transit, road maintenance, recreation and parks. Education taxes go directly to
the Government of Alberta to fund education.
Tax notices cannot be appealed.
The City of Edmonton offers a property tax monthly payment plan that enables
you to pay your taxes monthly, instead of in one annual payment.
To request an enrolment package, call 311 or visit edmonton.ca/taxes.

BSMT, 3424 - 42 STREET NW Plan 7922359 Blk 10 Lot 15 To

construct driveway extension and develop a secondary suite in the
basement of an existing single detached house, existing without
permits.
8807 - 31 AVENUE NW Plan 7621725 Blk 20 Lot 54 To operate a
major home based business (administrative office with trailer storage
for a lawn maintenance contractor).
10960 - 122 STREET NW Plan RN39B Blk 53 Lots 1-2 To
construct three dwellings of row housing with a side attached garage
and demolish the existing semi-detached building (relaxed: site
regulations).
12986 - 97 STREET NW Plan 1424543 Blk 11 Lot 7 To reduce
approved off-street parking from 47 to 45.
13106 - 123A STREET NW Plan 4565KS Blk 35 Lot 23 To
construct a single detached house with front attached garage, front
veranda, rear covered deck and uncovered deck (relaxed: site
regulation).
1296 - WEBBER GREENS DRIVE NW Plan 1121290 Blk 37 Lot
140 To construct a freestanding on-premises sign with two minor
digital on-premises sign additions.
18627 - 53 AVENUE NW Plan 9021148 Blk 32 Lot 37 To construct
a rear detached garage.
12904 - 82 STREET NW Plan 103MC Blk 13 Lot 2 To install a
minor digital on-premises off-premises sign and to remove a existing
freestanding on-premises sign.
12908 - 108 STREET NW Plan 915KS Blk 15 Lot 41 To construct
a rear detached garage.
10325 - 108 STREET NW Plan B2 Blk 7 Lots 118-122 To install a
freestanding minor digital off-premises sign and demolish two
freestanding off-premises sign located NW corner of 10363 108 Street
and two expired sign located NW corner of 10325 108 street.
152 - 53 STREET SW Plan 1026029 Blk 1 Lot 240 To construct a
rear, uncovered deck to an existing single detached house.
10827 - 126 STREET NW Plan RN22B Blk 46 Lot 4 To construct a
rear attached garage (relaxed: site regulation).
420 - RIVERBEND SQUARE NW Plan 9824766 Blk 101 Lot 39 To
place a temporary sign for 90 days ending 15-AUG-2016.
18485 - STONY PLAIN ROAD NW Plan 0324226 Blk 1 Lot 5 To
place a temporary sign for 90 days ending 16-AUG-2016.
18485 - STONY PLAIN ROAD NW Plan 0324226 Blk 1 Lot 5 To
place a temporary sign for 90 days ending 16-AUG-2016.
10803 - 138 STREET NW Plan 5382HW Blk 6 Lot 25 To construct
a cantilever to an existing single detached house, existing without
permits.
17010 - 90 AVENUE NW Plan 0928218 Blk 30 Lot 10 To place a
temporary sign for 90 days ending 22-AUG-2016.
17010 - 90 AVENUE NW Plan 0928218 Blk 30 Lot 10 To place a
temporary sign for 90 days ending 22-AUG-2016.
10974 - 138 STREET NW Plan 3624HW Blk 11 Lot 33 To erect a
wood fence in the rear yard.
7548 - 110 AVENUE NW Plan 6632ET Blk 7 Lot A To construct a
two-tiered rear uncovered deck.
10414 - 184 STREET NW Plan 0626825 Blk 1 Lot 9 To change
the use from a general industrial use to a warehouse sales use.
4004 - 50 STREET NW Plan 8621108 Blk 1 Lot 1A To place a
temporary sign for 90 days ending 15-AUG-2016.
12621 - VICTORIA TRAIL NW Plan 7722150 Blk 47 Lot 2 To
place a temporary sign for 90 days ending 14-AUG-2016.
9233 - 96 STREET NW Plan 2725Q Blk 3 Lot 18 To construct a
rear entry way, and to construct a rear two-tier uncovered deck.
9688 - 34 AVENUE NW Plan 9926018 Blk 21 Lot 14 To place a
temporary sign for 90 days ending 14-AUG-2016.
10377 - 51 AVENUE NW Plan 0424375 Blk 1 Lot 11 To place a
temporary sign for 90 days ending 14-AUG-2016.
6308 - 167A AVENUE NW Plan 1424973 Blk 11 Lot 8 To construct
a semi-detached house with front attached garages and front
verandas.

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If you object to a proposed development, you may appeal the Development Officers decision to the
Subdivision and Development Appeal Board. Your appeal with the required fee, must be filed within fourteen
days of this notice. If no appeal is filed before 4:30 p.m. on June 6, 2016 the development permit will be

Property taxes are due by June 30, 2016.

issued. Appeal forms are available from the Subdivision and Development Appeal Board, Office of the City
Clerk, Churchill Building, 10019 - 103 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 0G9, telephone 311.

Dated May 24, 2016

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