Ryan Ba­choo

At­lantic LNG em­ploy­ees helped Egypt Vil­lage Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School join the grow­ing num­ber of schools with on-site sus­tain­able agri­cul­ture based on re­new­able en­er­gy on Unit­ed Way Na­tion­al Day of Car­ing this past Sun­day.

As part of At­lantic’s par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Day of Car­ing, a team of em­ploy­ees led by At­lantic CEO Ronald Adams vol­un­teered to re­fur­bish and re­stock 11 grow box­es at the school, in­clud­ing sow­ing a new crop of gar­den veg­eta­bles. Egypt Vil­lage Gov­ern­ment al­so re­ceived a new So­lar Ponix unit (so­lar-pow­ered hy­dro­pon­ic sys­tem), which At­lantic will help in­te­grate in­to the school’s agri­cul­tur­al pro­gramme.

“Our work to­day at Egypt Vil­lage Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School con­tin­ues At­lantic’s dri­ve to build a sus­tain­able fu­ture by in­vest­ing in sus­tain­able prac­tices,” Adams said. “The Unit­ed Way Day of Car­ing is a sig­nif­i­cant com­po­nent of At­lantic’s com­mit­ment to vol­un­teerism and to our part­ner­ship with Unit­ed Way and we are hap­py for the op­por­tu­ni­ty to vol­un­teer in Point Fortin, our home com­mu­ni­ty.”

So­lar Ponix is a so­lar pow­ered hy­dro­pon­ic sys­tem in­vent­ed by An­cel Bhag­wan­deen, a con­sult­ing en­gi­neer at the MIC In­sti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy that con­struct­ed the sys­tem. The sys­tem won the In­no­va­tion and Tech­nol­o­gy Chal­lenge at the 2023 En­er­gy Con­fer­ence.