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Post by Max on Aug 27, 2007 15:38:20 GMT -3
I wonder where they came up with this idea after 35 years...? Right off my mayoral campaign webpage. yoursudbury.proboards58.com/index.cgi?board=municipal&action=display&thread=1182490103Coniston company seeks to convert old smokestacks into energy generators www.northernlife.ca/News/LocalNews/2007/08-27-07-smokestacks.asp?NLStory=08-27-07-smokestacksDate Published | Aug. 27, 2007 The Ontario government is helping Coniston Industrial Park Limited explore the potential for renewable energy production in the GSA by investing in wind and environmental studies in Consiton. Taxpayers are providing $100,000 through the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation's renewable energy program to Coniston Industrial Park Limited to conduct wind and environmental studies on the site of the former smelter property in Coniston. The studies will help determine the feasibility of retrofitting the two dormant 120-metre tall smokestacks with wind powered generation systems.
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Post by Max on Aug 28, 2007 1:38:51 GMT -3
My reply on the NL.
Glad to see someone is paying attention to the good ideas I came up with. Too bad its not our mayor.
Wind will not work well here. The turning blades make a lot of noise. I don't think the stacks are far enough away from homes, but we'll soon see. The two stacks would work well as solar towers, though.
The whole area should be turned into a massive recycling, incineration, and gasification plant. It would employ up to 2000 people. It would handle all of the garbage in Ontario if not Canada. Thirty-one million tonnes a year! Fifteen million tonnes in recyclables.
There is also hundreds of millions of tonnes of garbage currently buried in over 10,000 landfills, which can be mined. We could end landfilling across Canada. Cut greenhouses by millions of tonnes. End Mercury and other nasty chemicals from seeping into our groundwater, rivers, streams and lakes.
The city could bring in over 2 billion $ in new virgin revenue through tipping fees and electricity production and sales. We could drastically reduce property taxes, water and sewer rates. We could produce enough bio-diesel to run all of our city vehicles, eliminating over 8 million $ in current fuel expenditures. Having a low cost electricity producer in this city would encourage others to move here, which means more property tax $ for the city. It would mean more jobs when more people open or move their businesses here.
But where is all this leadership the mayor bragged about during his campaign?
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