Presentation to Peterborough County Council

(PCountyC)
Five Counties Energy-From-Waste Project
5CEFWP
Group of Three: Ray March, Ed. McLellan, Gordon Powell

Durham York Energy Centre, DYEC.

Have YOU been to Clarington?

‘Clarington EFW facility Virtual tour

schedule’ ENTER.
Click on ‘Virtual Tour-Covanta’
OUR REQUEST DYEC works, and makes money!
We request recognition from the PCountyC and/or appointment into an
existing PCountyC committee that would permit us, as an eligible party,
to submit proposals for funds in support of the Feasibility Committee.
 Our Dream
To construct an Energy-from-Waste facility similar to, but smaller than, the
DURHAM/YORK Energy Centre (DYEC) in Clarington.

To service waste disposal needs of 500,000 people in the counties of

Hastings, Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland, Peterborough and Prince
Edward from ~2030 to beyond 2100. DESTROY HOSPITAL WASTE and
RELATED BACTERIA and VIRUSES.

To sell the generated electric power to the grid thus rendering the power
available to residents of the 5 counties, and

To mine closed land-fill sites to reduce methane emission, generate

hydrogen, and reclaim land.
 The 5 Counties’ Area and the EFW Site

HAVELOCK As in DYEC, garbage

EFW trucks pick up and
facility transport to transfer
Darrell Drain’s
Kawartha Ethanol property, 3 stations, 100% sorting is
km east of Havelock. performed, waste is
Connections: Road, Rail,
Natural Gas & Ontario Grid compacted into long
vehicles and
Would you like to fly over it? transported to the EFW
Simulated facility, and waste is
ejected by vibration.
 The Immediate Problem
Two years ago, Peterborough City Council faced with financial and
environmental megadump problems, and a not-too-distant landfill closure
date, requested this Group to prepare a recommendation for a long-range
residual waste management plan for the City and County.

We were guided by three important principals:

1) Protect both health and the environment,

2) Minimize the burden on future generations, and
3) Conserve valuable resources.
 Protocol: for considering
future disposal of municipal waste
For the Five Counties to consider Energy-From-Waste, EFW, we recommend a tried protocol of
establishing a Feasibility Committee, FC, consisting of

(i) one member from each of the Five Participating Counties,

(ii) an experienced Environmental Consultant, for example, an H.D.R. consultant,
(iii) the lifetime of the FC should be one year.

The cost of the FC is estimated as $200,000 based on salary and overhead for the consultant
together with minor travel costs for the other members, possibly zero if ZOOMS continue.

The function of the FC is:

a. To educate and guide the County members around myriad aspects of waste disposal methods,
b. To coalesce the members of the FC and, thereby, the populations of the Five Counties, so as
c. To achieve a single objective within one year.

A Proposed Agenda shows the specific tasks for the Feasibility Committee.
 Draft Agenda for the Five-Counties
Waste Disposal Feasibility Study
Hastings; Kawartha Lakes, Northumberland, Peterborough, Prince Edward
1. To confirm a Feasibility Committee consisting of one person from each of the above five counties to consider
replacing further land-fill sites by an EFW, facility. This committee will be guided by a Consultant.
2. To detail the share for each county of the investments, profits, tip fees, and responsibilities. See: table of
populations and percentage populations of the defined areas that compose the five counties.
3. To develop specifications for an EFW conversion plant, or facility. It is suggested that a stripped-down version of
the Durham/York Energy Centre at Clarington, and of lower capacity, may well be adequate.
4. To recommend a supplier of an EFW facility. Covanta? (Clarington)
5. To prepare a financial plan for the project, for example, initiatives, investment and profit sharing, and to
calculate a project timeline. (Merchant Bankers: discussion with Nesbitt Burns)
6. To estimate the total annual consumption of electrical energy within the given five counties and to finalize
arrangements with Ontario Hydro for the sale of electrical energy.
7. To develop essential relationships with the 500,000 residents in the 5 counties served by the EFW facility.
8. To explore regional geography for a preferred location for the regional EFW facility. HAVELOCK?
9. To establish (i) a waste transfer plan to move residual waste efficiently from municipal transfer stations to the
EFW conversion facility, and (ii) to consider pooling of transfer vehicles.
10. To consider the problems due to integration of waste diversion and waste conversion.
11. To recommend candidates for a long-term plant-management contract.
12. To explore opportunities for selling and delivering thermal energy.
 March 13, 2020. Pandemic!!! What can we do now? Sent motion to
My birthday! Trent University Pet. City Council
re: PDI sale funds
A really good idea
Trent Summer Work Experience Program, TSWEP, $750,000. Proposals?

An Inventory of Ashley Holmes, 3rd -Year Peterborough

Open and Closed Land-fill Sites Forensic Sciences student Professional
in 5 Counties 12 weeks, Mens’ Group
35 hr/week Excel file &
$6,300 Word file Research Expenses

Findings
1. Open and closed land-fill sites 183
2. Acres of land-fill sites 2,024 (or 260 Canada 2012:
Roger’s Centre Domes)! 2.04 kg/capita/day
3. Population (2020): 498,332
4. Annual waste 134,600 + ? Tonnes
5. Annual cost $27,500,000 1 ha = 2.47 acres
6. Virtually nothing has been done to 1 Dome = 3.15 ha
prevent or reduce emission of
METHANE. 1 bound copy ready for
each county member of
Feas. Comm.
 What should we do now?
• Look at the GLOBAL
picture now and in 2030
and 2050.
A landfill site, a dump, rubbish dump, garbage
dump, or dumping ground is a site for disposal
of waste. Landfill is the oldest and most
common form of waste disposal. I have seen
HUGE sites in England, France, and Brazil.
• Read Ed Arnold’s editorial of July,
2002.
• Consider our REQUEST
We request recognition from the PCountyC
(and/or appointment into an existing
PCountyC committee) that would empower
us or others to submit proposals for funds in
support of the Feasibility Committee.
We need ~$200,000 for the Feas. Comm.
• Reach out to the other four counties.
• Re-evaluate the lifetime of Bensfort Road.
• Obtain a copy of DYEC PowerPoint show
(78 slides). Left with John Kennedy. We
were not permitted to meet/discuss with
the City/County Waste Committee. ?????
What a Waste: 2020
Ʃ = 2.02 billion
tonnes/year
1 tonne = 1,000 kg
 Leeds Aurora Borealis. NMP has left Canada
University (U of T)

Project HARP
(McGill University

Cassis Bistro
(50th Trent Anniversary)

Ref. Kaza, Silpa, Lisa Yao, Perinaz Bhada-Tata, and Frank Van
Woerden. 2018. “What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of
Solid Waste Management to 2050.”
Overview booklet. World Bank, Washington, DC.
License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0 IGO.
 Peterborough Examiner editorial, July 23, 2002.
Just four days after our return from Syracuse, the following editorial by
Ed Arnold appeared in the Peterborough Examiner:

“The financial case is also strong. Peterborough city taxpayers alone will
spend $4 million this year to cover the net cost of all waste management
programs: landfill, recycling and hazardous waste disposal.

Onondaga County will provide the same services to nearly eight times as
many people at a net cost of $6 million, including a $16 million annual
payment toward the cost of building its EFW plant.

The primary difference is $11 million in revenue from the sale of

electricity generated at the plant.”

N.B. Three people, responsible for waste disposal, declined to go to Syracuse!

Thank you for your invitation to give this presentation, and for your interest.

At this juncture, we feel very much like three of Pirandello’s

Six Characters in Search of an Author;
we can go no further without your approval and encouragement.

Submitted respectfully,

Dr. Raymond E. March Ed. K. McLellan Dr. Gordon W. Powell

705 652 0721 705 748 3923 705 741 9448

P.O. Box 1746

rmarch365@gmail.com el.mclellan@sympatico.ca gordonw.powell@sympatico.ca

P.S. There are 800 EFW plants in 40 countries.

In Europe, there are 429 EFW facilities; Canada has 3 EFW facilities.

Ref. www.thinkglobalgreen/waste-to-energy