Letters to the Minister of Environment on 'EFW is Greenwashing'

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I believe that this garbage incinerator is contrary to the Green Energy Act introduced by your government as it will release tonnes of green house gases over the next 25 years and can hardly be called a renewable source of energy.

I hope that your government is prepared to make an investment in the future of our Region and take us down a safer and more modern path for dealing with garbage. 

Furthermore, if you are unable to stop such an obvious threat to the health of Ontario citizens, I really wonder if there is any point in having a Ministry of the Environment.  Has it become a rubber stamp to give the illusion of safety and due diligence?  

I hope that we here in Ontario are not so desperately in need of energy as to make this atrocious error which will leave a lasting mark on the shores of Lake Ontario.

I support citizen requests for a referral to an Environmental Review Tribunal because the very concept of turning waste into energy is greenwashing in the extreme.

"Energy from waste" is a ploy to persuade people that incineration is equivalent to recycling. But it isn't. The energy produced from burning a plastic, for instance, is only a tiny fraction of the energy put into that plastic in the course of its manufacture. The energy value recovered (i.e. not lost) through proper recycling is far greater than that obtained through burning it.

When energy recovery issues like this have been raised with the proponents in the current EA, they fall back on the argument that the incinerator is primarily a means of waste disposal - the energy in inconsequential. Call a spade a spade - cut the greenwashing.