A great idea however is still only an idea until you put it into action, and despite this scenario planning, no scheme is without flaws. Without senior level of government commitments this plan won't work, but what isn't tried won't work either, as you can't harvest what you haven't planted. Conversely, you can reap what you sow and if this seed idea took root and grew our environment would be the main benefactor.

Pursuing the concept of this large-scale energy project with senior levels of government costs us nothing, so if the venture is not approved, we are safe to fail. However, with senior government support, expertise, and financial "Green Aid" backing, this Trash to Cash Garbage to Gas project will not fail. Waste to Energy and Plasma Arc have only recently gained buzzword status in Canada, but with senior government providing the necessary ”Green Ammunition” we would win the War on Waste.

Therefore, the time is ripe to wise up, recycle our brains, demonstrate some smarts, come to grips with our "carbon footprint" and end "eco-pro-poor policies and employ innovative ""eco-pro-growth" marketplace dynamics. However, all of these "eco-realism" job and revenue creating ideas are completely AWOL in our current federal, provincial and city council’s agenda's, as they continue to sail along in a sea of underachieving uninspiring sameness.

So as “Greenmania” sweeps the globe there's no better time to take "eco-action" by "recycling the leader" of this province and electing a Greenmania money minded leader so we can start producing "eco-energy" in our "eco-coolio city." Burning trash for electricity and cash has science is on it side. But so far, politics is not. The world outside of Canada has openly accepted and embraced WtE incinerators; because garbage and sewage are energy sources that really cleans up! Here, we have not, and that’s due in large part to the thick, political scar tissue we’ve developed over the years as we remain locked in a time warp of collective failure of imagination; and we need to stop letting opportunities "go to waste".

State-of-the-Art Waste to Energy Plant in Switerland

Premier Dalton McGuinty claims he wants Ontario to become a leader in incinerator and biomass technology but has done nothing to achieve the vision. He went to investigate how Sweden solved their garbage problem and revitalize their waterfront. Sweden is a socialist country, with womb-to-tomb governmental care. They are more NDP than the NDP, but even they understand that landfilling--even with diversion--is the worst way to handle garbage. As stated previously, Subbor is Canadian Technolgy built right here in Ontario, yet despite "McGuilty's" claims, he allowed Toronto to buy the Green Lane "mega-landfill" cesspool near London. > [img]frown.gif" border="0[/img]

State-of-the-Art Waste to Energy Plant in the Sweden

Sweden’s incinerators emit exhaust that is 98% water. Last time I checked the leachate from landfills is not 98% water nor is water harmful to us. But incinerators do have one powerful pollutant. Sweden's “30” incinerator’s produce less than one measly "gram” of dioxin per year, so I guess you can see why "McGuilty" approved Toronto’s purchase of Green Lane megafill. : [img]smile.gif" border="0[/img]

All of the State-of-the-Art Waste to Energy plants depicted on this portal are city dumps. A landfill is just a fancy word for dump. Do you see any garbage, seagulls, bears at their dump? Nope, you see architecturally designed buildings surrounded by "Green Space."

Compare their city dumps and waste management techniques to ours!

There are over 900 Waste to Energy clean production power plants in the world accommodating hundreds of millions of people. Can they all be wrong and Dalton "McGuilty" is right?

One of us is smarter than all of them?

I don’t think so.

We’re paying a high price listening to this sort of Liberal hot air. Talk is cheap; electricity isn’t. If Canada cannot lead, it will have to follow; and following the rest of the world who incinerate their garabge is the road this Green evangelist would like to lead us down. Waste is not garbage, but a commercially valuable, renewable resource. The incineration and vaporware science is sound and we’re not going to become anyone’s guinea pig. Sweden's "burning" with enthusiasm over their incinerators and it’s time to make Sudbury Canada’s wasteland again!

We do not become world class by building more arenas when we already have more arenas than any city our size on earth. We become world class when we lead the way in municipal governance, things like making garbage a resource, not an ideology, and by creating our own electricity and jobs in innovative ways. When we are three decades behind a socialist country, when our environmental laws are not even in the same league, we are not even on the radar of being world class.

The final fact worth remembering is that we are the ultimate source of our destiny and we do have the "Power" to choose. We might like to think the garbage disappears forever when the truck hauls it away from the curb, but this is, after all, a small planet, and materials don't leave it. They just cycle around, and sometimes they come back to haunt you.

The best way to ensure landfills and landfill greenhouse gas emissions continue to grow is to sit back, to do nothing and hope it goes away. For those who wish to participate in cleaning up this planet, don't bury your head in the sand, stand up and be accountable, so every "Green Minded Voter" should get in line with this Green Acres Philosophy and get out and vote. Incinerators and Plasma arc are the future of waste disposal and uniting trash and tech is every enthusiastic environmentalists’ dream. To stay in the energy loop you simply can't combine age-old wisdom with high-tech wizardry any better.

With Ontario going to the polls this fall, action to green Ontario's energy supply and reduce global warming pollution will be a hot topic. To cut through the hot air and get to real solutions to the climate crisis we need to imagine the unimaginable to avoid having to live with the unthinkable. Ontario PC leader John Tory supports Waste to Energy incinerators, although he supports Nuclear Energy as well. But with the political wherewithal for this proactive initiative, this industrial ecology project would quickly move from the pioneer stage to a climax state of stable maturity.

Political engagement enables the spread of environmentally conscious policies that can turn this vision into a reality, thus, it’s time to wake up and $mell the garbage for without public action, thoughtful individuals are "swimming upstream." The choice is your. Make it wisely.

This is the end of the rainbow.

Our Pot of Gold Awaits!

So shall we pop the cork or prepare a casket for the death of this major opportunity that is not just knocking but pounding on our door?

The notion of doing the "Green Thing” may be considered impossible or a Herculean task by some, but in truth what we need are more people who specialize in the impossible, and we have zero to lose and everything to gain by putting our best shoe forward to reform our waste and electricity production policies.

Thus, it’s time to not only re-examine the deficiencies within government but to overcome them by electing leaders who adopt “uncommon common sense” policies and business methodologies for the good of all, as we can not long afford the agenda trap of operating in our habitual non-sensible preprogrammed Twentieth Century ways.

To not do so is "crystal clear nonsense," which raises one simple, final and important question:

Where is the leadership in this country?

It's obvious to me; it doesn't exist and politicians don't care. People who do, must.

What do you think?

[ 09 July 2007: Message edited by: Sudbury ]