Do I get it right, you start digging up Streets to supply Hot Water , would it be not easier to generate Electricity at the BCR Site and feed it back into the Grid, but the Experts know it best, looks to me like a make work Project.

Enough for god's sakes. Another 3.7 million in municipal spending. What about the air shed. Miller edition this is going to impact you. Forget the faulty formaldehyde tests. PM 10 and PM 2.5 is what is killing people. These incompetents in city hall are too much. My property taxes went up 10% in 2010 and are so far scheduled to rise another 13% in 2011. Enough. Rodgers Skakun and Krause have to go!!!!!!!!!!

Any Burning or More Burning Downtown (Bowl Area) is not needed-no matter how "safe"
UNBC says it is.
City Hall has got to go-they are doing really "stupid" things-things normal people would not do.
Must be $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ in thier hands.

looks to me like a make work Project.,

Radloffs last fling before he retires Peed away our tax dollars for years and this is the grand finally. We are suckers of the first order to allows such stupid projects. We are going to stop using gas and electricity to heat our buildings and burn wood waste instead. Does that make sense.
Cheers

This is all about switching from a fossil fuel use (natural gas) to a so called "carbon neutral" use (wood) to appease the carbon bean counter god which is more an more coming out as bad science.

As I keep saying, Mother Nature smells carbon when she smells carbon, no matter what bin human bean counters put it into.

solar power = NO CARBON!!
hydro power = NO CARBON!!
wind power = NO CARBON!!
geothermal power = NO CARBON!!

Read Mother Nature's lips!!!!!

Mark my words, within 5 years the "carbon neutral" science will be shown as bunk. But it will take another 10 years at least for the bureaucrats to fess up to the mistake they made and slowly start to dismantle those projects because they hate having egg on their face.

This will not be the first time that has happened.

Just for a small taste.

http://robertkyriakides.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/why-wood-burning-is-not-carbon-neutral

http://www.davidsuzuki.org/issues/climate-change/science/the-problems-with-carbon-offsets-from-tree-planting/index.php

From the above link:

"One of the most common types of carbon offsets on the market comes from tree-planting projects. Many companies sell these offsets and claim they can be used to offset greenhouse gas emissions from other sources, such as air travel, automobiles, etc. While planting trees obviously has environmental benefits, selling carbon offsets from these projects is problematic in a number of ways:

- Methodological challenges
- Permanence issues
- Lack of space
- Forests as a source of carbon emissions
- Lack of additionality (i.e., above and beyond business as usual)
- Monoculture plantations:
- No root-cause solution"

You are under the impression that the politicos have made a mistake in the carbon scam?

Dude, they may appear very stupid, but they are competent enough to fill their own pockets and those that supported their election bid.

Yes, the "carbon neutral" science is a load of dodo, and the offset program is nothing more than a government supported scam. The 1 thing you neglect is the fact that no matter the elevation, they are still human with human fallibility such as avarice and gullibility. Add in the need to appear to be "serving" their constituents or actually doing something, and we have a Carbon Offset program.

Have to agree with the comments here. If you remove all of the carbon credit garbage out of this, what do you have? In a nutshell, we are looking to spend 4 million dollars to supply energy to buildings that already have an energy source.

I could see if we were replacing a coal fired generator with a solar energy network, but we're talking about replacing the burning of natural gas with the burning of wood. Maybe I'm missing something here, but how exactly does this make the environment better?

Then again, this isn't about the environment. It's nothing more than a man made "feel good" system that was created to give the illusion that we are doing something good for the environment, while we continue on with our damaging ways.

This is a $15 Million dollar project. $12 Million from the Fed through green infrastucture funds, and the gas tax. The City throws in the other $3 Million.

The system is being built because the money is available to build it, and not for any other reason. Take away the Federal Money and the City would drop the project like a hot potato.

Most of the rationale behind the project is smoke and mirrors, however for all intents and purposes it is a done deal, including tunnelling under the CN trackage and disposing of the contaminated soil.

Have a nice day.