Planned organic waste facility is a gas plant masquerading as climate progress, and the city is proposing to destroy protected wetland habitat to build it.
The battle over the location of Burnaby’s Green Recycling and Organics facility has been framed as a choice between climate progress and habitat preservation, when in fact its ability to advance climate progress is weak at best.
What is incredible too, is that a facility being touted by the city as an “important step towards becoming a carbon neutral city” would in fact be designed to generate greenhouse gases. Referred to by many names ― “biogas,” “renewable natural gas” , “biomethane” ― the outcome is simple and troubling: the gas to be produced by the GRO facility is methane, a potent greenhouse gas with more than 80 times the warming power of CO2.
By continuing to invest in new gas producing facilities, Burnaby is also supporting the maintenance of existing gas infrastructure well into the future, hindering the push to electrify other sectors and activities, including home heating, cooking and transportation.
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