What about the particulate matter that this plant will spew into the bowl area?
metalman.

So, what amount of pollution will this biomass burner generate and contribute to our downtown air quality?

This system is predicted to reduce the city's particulate emissions by 100 tonnes/year (+/-), and greenhouse gases are projected to be reduced by 1800-2000 tonnes/year.

So that reduction in greenhouse gas is going to do what? Has the science been proven? Your pockets are being picked big time. Why do we need this heating plant? Roads and sidewalks will be dug up, is this factored into the cost? Will the all ready installed heating systems be removed or kept and maintained for backup?

Seamutt think of greenhouse gas reduction as insurance in case the global warming theory is right. Similar to house insurance. I dont believe my house is going to burn down but just in case, I'm going to buy some insurance.

This is the most airy fairy project I have ever seen. All it does is provide employment for Radloff
Cheers

Soooooo, what if lakeland shuts down.Hmmm?

This assessment means nothing since this project violates Clean Air Bylaw #8266. If the average Joe can't use wood boilers, neither can The City. Fair's fair.

So hood the world should spend trillons based on a science in which billions have already been spent and the result is what? Looking at history and considering your reasoning it might be smarter to prepare for a cooling which would have a much greater adverse effect on mankind than any warming.

who's history ?your version? qualifications first. i think u over estimate them. pseudo-science lets you fill in blanks. and u have done wonderfully.

Keith Battye says:
November 16, 2010 at 11:00 pm
Here in Zimbabwe our GDP per head is lower than it was in 1951 and our electrical power usage for the entire country of 12 million people is 1500Mw. Consider also that our liquid fuel consumption is around 1m liters a day and you can see how far we have to go to improve lives.

The disastrous corollary to this is that deforestation is massive and accelerating because wood as a fuel is “free”. In the last 10 years approximately 60% of our forests have been burned to cook food and to provide poor light after dark.

Widespread rural electrification coupled with upgraded power generation ( we have billions of tons of coal and huge natural gas fields that have not been exploited) would improve lives and stop deforestation. Instead my government is disinvesting in power and starting to pass laws to combat global warming with particular reference to CO2.

It seems we have chosen poverty over development.

So Hood show me the science. I guess Gore has it figured since he has made over 300 million with the scam of his discredited lie of a movie.

so now there is warming but its caused by deforestation? who is keith battye?

i no longer have access to academic papers but here are some media sources.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/04/AR2007020400953.html

http://www.newsweek.com/2007/08/13/the-truth-about-denial.html

its possible I might be a victim of Al Gore's conspiracy or perhaps you are a victim of the energy lobby's effort. reminds me of the tobacco lobby.