Energy from waste must have carbon cap

Re: “Region seeks cap and trade exemption for incinerator,” April 7, 2016

Dear Editor,

The final agreement to build this facility was not signed until November 25, 2010.

If, at that time, Durham and York regional chairs and staff did not see the carbon pricing writing on the wall I can only suggest it was wilful blindness.

So-called waste from energy is by far the most carbon intensive means to make, what in reality is, a very small amount of power at a horrendous environmental and financial cost, 20 times that of a natural gas power plant.

In other words, exactly the type of facility that must be capped.

Rod Muir

Waste Diversion and Sustainability Chair

Sierra Club Canada Foundation