Nova Scotia, Canada, has launched a pilot project to use energy-efficient LED streetlights replacing the conventional streetlights in several parts of the province, aiming to reduce energy consumption.

The initiative of LED Roadway Lighting Ltd. of Amherst, N.S. has been supported by the province’s ecoNova Scotia for Clean Air and Climate Change fund and Conserve Nova Scotia. About 1,100 high-pressure sodium street lights in at least 10 municipalities will be replaced with LED lights. Many lights at the Halifax airport and along highways in the province will also be replaced.

The pilot project is intended to conserve energy, as well as reducing greenhouse gas and air pollution emissions with the new LED technology. It was described as an "innovative development that will reduce energy use, harmful air emissions, and costs to municipalities" in a government release.

Premier Rodney MacDonald and Environment Minister David Morse will be in Amherst today to make a funding announcement of "environmental technology," said the release.