Important! Do you want to burn garbage? No? Then please become an activist for Authentic Zero Waste! Please visit Zero Waste Canada invite friends and please share this article and paste the text. Thank You! In 2014, Metro Vancouver’s Burnaby waste-to-energy (WTE) facility will cost taxpayers $22 million to operate, including operating expenses and long-term debt servicing charges. On the revenue side, the facility will bring in just a quarter of that amount -- $5.7 million -- by burning garbage and selling electricity to BC Hydro. Since 2006, the facility has regularly cost taxpayers more than twice what it generates in revenues. On top of that, Metro Vancouver now has announced it will spend an additional $8 million this year on emission upgrades, adding to the $60 million already spent on improvement to the Burnaby WTE since it opened in 1988. Between 2012 and 2017, the Authority intends to spend an additional $37.5 million upgrading the WTE facility which regularly achieves emission targets set by government. vancouverobserver/news/burnaby-incinerator-burning-through-taxpayer-money
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 17:45:17 +0000
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