Environment committee  I think so, yes.

Environment committee  That's passing the buck. The municipalities don't have the money. They're stretched as far as they can go, so they can't do anything. The provinces have other priorities, health care and so on, so I don't think there's enough funding out there. You can get a lot of private fund

Environment committee  I know they have with Plasco, and I know in Alberta they have with other projects like composting, so I would say yes, but I don't think you'd find any entrepreneur who would say it's enough. More than that, it's the physical support. The feds are behind in finding a solution. I

Environment committee  Again, incineration is not the way to go. Even with modern scrubbers, incineration will pretty much give you the same problems as coal in terms of greenhouse gases, in terms of carcinogenic emissions, dioxins and furans. Again, they're just too low a temperature. You need a high

Environment committee  Well, remember, you have everything broken down into its chemical base, so by the technology that's involved, you can create pretty much what you want. You do produce nitrogen for fertilizer. You produce CO, which can be burned as a gas and can then power our electricity, provide

Environment committee  Well, the Ontario government has done a study of projects like Plasco, and there are other ones that are well along in the development stages, some in the U.S. and in Europe. The analysis shows that in many cases the amounts are undetectable. I was at some hearings in Californi

Environment committee  When I started this, and remember this was in the seventies so it's a long time ago, certainly the Scandinavian countries, Germany, and the Netherlands, but they have been passed by now because the incinerator process was the big deal, and that's what they were perfecting. I thi

Environment committee  Hi. I guess the biggest point really is the temperature. I think the very fact that about 99% of everything that is in garbage.... You know, you've recycled and done all that at the front end. You do that no matter what. Whatever is left is what you now put into the gasificat

Environment committee  Great. Thank you very much. This is a new experience for me sitting as a witness, not around the table, but hello to all former colleagues and congratulations for dealing with this issue. It's one I tried as chair and a member of the environment committee to get in the forefront