Westport Innovations Inc. (NASDAQ:WPRT) reported Vancouver's Philip G. Hill, principal inventor of Westport's founding technology using clean-burning natural gas in diesel engines, will win the 2011 $100,000 Encana Principal Award granted by the Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation. Hill's innovation of high-pressure direct injection (HPDI) allows diesel engines the world's workhorses of transportation to operate with the same power and efficiency that they are known for, but with reduced emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxides and particulate matter, and 21-27 percent less greenhouse gas emissions.

Westport Innovations Inc. provides alternative fuel, low-emissions technologies that enable engines to operate on fuels, such as compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, hydrogen, and biofuels.

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