Vancouver, BC Transit Agency Awards Natural Gas Fuel Station Contract to Clean Energy in Move to Help Curb Harmful Emissions,...
March 04 2009 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
TransLink, the South Coast British Columbia Transportation
Authority, has awarded Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Nasdaq:CLNE) a new
long-term contract to expand and maintain the compressed natural
gas (CNG) fuel station that supports TransLink�s current fleet of
60 clean-burning CNG buses.
Located at the agency�s Port Coquitlam Transit Centre, in a
suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the Clean
Energy-operated, high-volume station will be upgraded and
reconfigured to accommodate potential fleet growth of up to 125
buses.
Clean Energy has been under contract to provide CNG fueling
services to TransLink since 1998, with total CNG bus fleet
consumption now topping 1.2 million US gallons annually. TransLink
buses provide 700,000 passenger trips daily on 201 fixed routes in
Metro Vancouver�s 695-square-mile service area.
Alberto Cayuela, TransLink�s Project Manager, said, �Our agency
is committed to the reduction of emission impacts from the
operation of our transit fleet. To meet this goal, TransLink works
to surpass applicable emission regulations and standards in the
procurement of new fleet vehicles, and seeks continuous improvement
in emissions from the existing fleet by retrofitting or replacing
existing equipment and using cleaner fuels. Our program ranges from
an ongoing commitment to zero-emission electric trolleys and an
investment in clean diesel/electric hybrids to our new fleet of
CNG-powered coaches.�
James Harger, Clean Energy Senior Vice President, said, "In
Vancouver and in every community and region we serve, Clean Energy
is committed to helping reduce health-harming emissions and
protecting environmental quality. The North American transit
industry�s transition from diesel to natural gas power is
accelerating in response to the need to curtail emissions, decrease
fuel costs, and reduce dependence on imported oil.�
Harger explained that natural gas produces up to 23 percent
lower greenhouse gas emissions than diesel fuel in heavy-duty
vehicles and is domestically sourced in the U.S. and Canada.
Clean Energy is the leading provider of natural gas (CNG
and LNG) for transportation in North America. It has a broad
customer base in the refuse, transit, ports, shuttle, taxi,
trucking, airport and municipal fleet markets, fueling more than
14,000 vehicles daily at 176 strategic locations across the United
States and Canada. Clean Energy owns and operates two LNG
production plants, one in Willis, TX and one in Boron, CA, with
combined capacity of 260,000 LNG gallons per day and designed to
expand to 340,000 LNG gallons per day as demand increases. It also
owns and operates a landfill gas facility in Dallas, TX that
produces renewable biomethane gas for delivery in the nation�s gas
pipeline network. Please visit www.cleanenergyfuels.com
Forward-Looking Statements This news release contains
forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions,
including statements about the potential growth of the TransLink
CNG bus fleet. Actual results and the timing of events could differ
materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking
statements as a result of several factors including budget
limitations, availability of vehicles and demand for public transit
in the Vancouver metropolitan area. The forward-looking statements
made herein speak only as of the date of this press release and the
company undertakes no obligation to publicly update such
forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or
circumstances.
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