Editor:
Re: Oil & gas not in port
plans, June 14
While Mayor Lois Jackson visits Norway on her fact-finding trip regarding potential for crude oil and LNG movement through Delta, it would be timely for her to spend some time to investigate Norwegian waste-to-energy incinerators.
It would appear that waste-to-energy incineration would have a more immediate impact on
Delta's future than oil and LNG. Norway has invested in this technology and also has been very successful in recycling.
The great success in recycling has ended in a situation where they do not produce enough waste. This has resulted in the need to import garbage from other countries to keep the waste-to-energy incinerators operating.
With the prospect of a waste-to-energy incinerator located on Tsawwassen First Nation land, port facilities at Roberts Bank are ideally located. Hmm, let's visualize oil from the tar sands piped through B.C. pristine mountain wilderness and shipped via B.C. coastal waters to China and China's garbage shipped to Delta for incineration.
Twenty-first century global trade can take many forms. Is anyone in Delta concerned about this or am I going to be just another global-garbage NIMBY?
Tom Steele
