Everyone in the city of Ottawa creates garbage.
Only a fraction of the population of the city uses public transit.Yet, most election talk this fall is about light rail and a downtown tunnel.
To Peter Robertson, a former mayor Brampton and veteran municipal politician, this scenario is out of whack. There should be much more conversation about waste disposal and the new technologies that create energy from waste.
Speaking at an information meeting on energy from waste technologies hosted by the Carleton Landowners Association on Thursday, Sept. 30 at the Carp Agricultural Hall in Carp and attended by about 175 people, Mr. Robertson said that a municipal government should refuse to accept the old way of burying garbage in the ground. Waste has value, he said and municipal politicians are in control of it.
He urged that the municipality build its own energy from waste plant, saying that if the city of Ottawa can build a tunnel and light rail transit system, it surely can find $70 million for a waste to energy plant.
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