WINNERS CHOSEN IN 1st ANNUAL CONTEST SEEKING STUDENTS BEST IDEAS TO SOLVE ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
CONTACT: Ms. Annabel Addington
Student Program Co-ordinator
(604) 688-0221 Ext. 315
RELEASE DATE: June 19,1995
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VANCOUVER, B.C.> > The Fraser Institute announced today that four winners have been selected in The Fraser Institute's Student Essay Competition on "Market-based Solutions to Environmental Problems." The competition offered a first prize of $1,000, second prize of $500, and a third prize of $250.
The winners were:
3rd prize:
Ms. Tracey Nicholls Taylor, a CGA student from New Westminster, British Columbia, for her essay on "Auctioning Our Oceans: How the capitalist pigs could have saved the northern cod."
2nd prize:
Second place was awarded jointly (the two second place winners will receive $250 each)
Mr. Norman Groot, of Don Mills, Ontario, an economics student at Wilfrid Laurier University, for his entry on "A Case for Market-based Solutions to
Environmental Problems"
and
Mr. Pierre Desrochers of St-Eustache, Quebec, an urban studies student at the National School for Scientific Research, for his french language entry
"Condemning Innovation".
1st prize:
Ms. Heidi Gjersten, of Waterloo, Ontario, an economics student at the University of Waterloo, with her submission on "Road Pricing as a Solution to Urban Air Pollution".
"The winners were chosen from among entries sent in from 35 universities and colleges representing 7 provinces across the country", said Annabel Addington. "The essays were of extremely high quality and the judges had the unenviable task of selecting the winners. We were delighted to discover the interest students have in employing market mechanisms to solve environmental problems."
Ms. Addington noted that, "the winning entries will be published in the Fraser Institute's monthly journal on current issues, Fraser Forum, as well as the Institute's student newsletter, The Canadian Student Review, circulated to thousands of students across the country. Our aim is to stimulate the curiosity of other students by publishing these prize-winning entries."
For more information, including copies of the winning entries, or to get in touch with the winners, please contact Ms. Annabel Addington by phone at (604) 688-0221 ext. 315 or by fax (604) 688-8539.