Piedmont Natural Gas Receives Clean Cities Award from Centralina Clean Fuels Coalition
February 12 2009 - 12:27PM
PR Newswire (US)
Piedmont receives award given annually for clean transportation and
fuel activities CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Piedmont Natural Gas (NYSE:PNY) has been awarded the 2008 Clean
Cities Award, given annually by the Centralina Clean Fuels
Coalition (CCFC) to the business or organization that "best
demonstrates excellence in clean transportation and fuel
activities." The CCFC is one of nearly 90 Clean City Coalitions
participating in the Department of Energy's (DOE) Clean Cities
Program. The award was presented to Piedmont at the Annual Board
meeting of the Centralina Council of Governments held last night in
Charlotte. In presenting the award to Piedmont Natural Gas, the
Coalition noted several of the Company's ongoing initiatives to
reduce its overall carbon footprint and improve local air quality.
Those initiatives included Piedmont's "no idle" policy for its
entire fleet of utility service and distribution vehicles as well
as various employee programs around carpooling to work, walking to
lunch instead of driving during the ozone season, and refueling
vehicles after 6:00 p.m. to reduce VOC (volatile organic compound)
emissions. In addition, this past year Piedmont acquired two
natural gas forklifts for use in its Distribution Center replacing
units that used propane or gasoline. Piedmont also maintains
several vehicles in its service and distribution fleet that run on
natural gas. Mr. Michael Yount, Senior Vice President for Utility
Operations for Piedmont commented on the award, "We're certainly
very pleased to receive this award from the Centralina Clean Fuels
Coalition. This really is a tribute to the creativity and hard work
of so many of our teammates at Piedmont who have embraced the
notion of improving our local air quality and reducing our carbon
footprint." About Piedmont Natural Gas Piedmont Natural Gas is an
energy services company primarily engaged in the distribution of
natural gas to more than one million residential, commercial and
industrial utility customers in North Carolina, South Carolina and
Tennessee, including 62,000 customers served by municipalities who
are wholesale customers. Our subsidiaries are invested in joint
venture, energy-related businesses, including unregulated retail
natural gas marketing, interstate natural gas storage and
intrastate natural gas transportation. More information about
Piedmont Natural Gas is available on the Internet at
http://www.piedmontng.com/. About Centralina Clean Fuels Coalition
The Centralina Clean Fuels Coalition (CCFC), has been in existence
in the Greater Charlotte Region for over 10 years and was
designated in April of 2004 in the Department of Energy's Clean
Cities program. The Coalition is a local effort of the Centralina
Council of Governments, a state designated regional planning agency
in North Carolina comprising Anson, Cabarrus, Gaston, Iredell,
Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Stanly, and Union counties.
DATASOURCE: Piedmont Natural Gas CONTACT: David L. Trusty of
Piedmont Natural Gas, +1-704-731-4391 (O), +1-704-507-6393 (C), Web
site: http://www.piedmontng.com/
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