BIOENERGY PLANT DOES NOT MAKE DOLLARS AND SENSE...

This is the title above a Letter to the Editor in today's Woolwich Observer, by Alastair Rickard (pg. 14). I must admit that I was flabbergasted at the numbers and costs as presented by Mr. Rickard. Indeed it will be no surprise if the large taxpayer subsidy is viewed locally as simply adding insult to injury. Many people, myself included, have expressed their desire for an expansion of "green energy" whether wind, solar or biomass (biowaste). It just seems so ridiculous that we can't manage to have a win- win scenario in so doing.

One local example in Guelph of the benefits of biomass energy are written up in today's K-W Record (pg. B6). Apparently the sewage treatment plant in Guelph have retrofitted in order to produce and capture methane from their processes. This is then being used to power municipal pick up trucks rather than gasoline. These are exactly the benefits everyone wants to see from green energy.