BACKGROUNDER Massive waste incinerator expansion proposed for Brampton P repared by: Toronto Environmental Alliance and Environmental Defence Canada October 2023 Summary : E merald Energy from Waste Inc in Brampton is seeking approval from the Ontario government for a massive expansion of its 30-year-old waste burning facility in Brampton (Peel Region). [...] Even before completing the environmental assessment process, the government has promised $2,990,000 to the facility to experiment with making hydrogen by burning garbage.1 If successful, Emerald would own the biggest incineration facility in Canada, and one of the biggest in North America – capable of burning 912,000 tonnes per year. [...] There are mounting concerns that the environmental impacts of the additional air pollution and greenhouse gas emission burden from this incinerator expansion are not being properly considered or communicated to the surrounding community. [...] Emerald’s self-reported data to the federal government show that the incinerator is one of Brampton’s largest industrial emitters of nitrogen dioxide, 3 a toxic air pollutant that causes asthma and chronic lung disease. [...] Air pollution from the incinerator is most likely to impact residents and workers in Bramalea, Malton and Rexdale (northwest Toronto).
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