At its February 6 meeting the ENC Executive agreed to support the Alberta Dark Sky Association in its objection to the Stantec Tower Lighting proposal.
The project involves placing a 3-storey LED digital sign on top of the new 69-storey Stantec building in downtown Edmonton, along with lighting the entire building.
It is well known that artificial light at night, especially blue light, has many serious negative effects on living things, including human beings, flora and fauna.
In particular, the detrimental effects of light pollution on migrating birds and insects should be noted.
The goal of the Dark Sky Association is to reduce waste light, light trespass, glare and light pollution throughout communities with which they work, one being Edmonton.
Details of the Stantec Tower Lighting Application can be found at
https://www.edmonton.ca/residential_neighbourhoods/PDF/LDA180675_Public_Engagement_Boards.pdf
The contact person for the Alberta Dark Sky Association is Rod E. Mc Connell at rodemcc@shaw.ca