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Just three weeks before Plasco Energy must meet a city deadline to show it has financing for a proposed waste-to-energy plant, the Citizen has learned the company is now proposing a slightly smaller facility with potentially less capacity.
It is unclear whether the changes would affect the terms of Plasco’s 20-year, multimillion-dollar contract with the city, although the changes could reduce the amount of daily waste the company is able to handle.
Plasco informed the Ministry of Environment more than a month ago that its design changes include a “reduction in plant size, inclusion of a drying and cooling system, a change in stormwater management, and a reduction in engines from 10 to seven,” according to a statement from ministry spokeswoman Kate Jordan.
“As a result of these proposed changes, Plasco will be required to update all environmental assessment and study reports, associated studies and modelling.”
The company has until Dec. 31 to meet its financial commitments under its contract with the city to build a commercial plant by 2016.
The deal is contingent on several factors, including that Plasco be able to prove to the city that it has secured financing — a deadline Plasco has missed twice.
It’s unclear how these design changes affect the terms of the contract, if at all. Attempts to reach the Plasco spokesman were unsuccessful.
City manager Kent Kirkpatrick said the company informed the city that it had revised its designs into what Plasco believes is a “more cost-effective configuration.”
For example, Plasco plans to build fewer processing strings, but each with greater capacity than the previous design. Still, according to Kirkpatrick, the overall processing capacity could drop to 250 tonnes per day from 3oo, although the company has not provided the city with those specifics.
The contract that council agreed to in December 2011 called for “a 300-tonne-a-day gasification plant.”
Kirkpatrick also said that on Oct. 30, he sent Plasco a “60 day formal written notice” regarding the end-of-year deadline for the company “to provide to the city evidence of their capacity to fund/finance the construction of the Ottawa commercial facility. ?We continue to await their formal response.”
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It is unclear whether the changes would affect the terms of Plasco’s 20-year, multimillion-dollar contract with the city, although the changes could reduce the amount of daily waste the company is able to handle.
Plasco informed the Ministry of Environment more than a month ago that its design changes include a “reduction in plant size, inclusion of a drying and cooling system, a change in stormwater management, and a reduction in engines from 10 to seven,” according to a statement from ministry spokeswoman Kate Jordan.
“As a result of these proposed changes, Plasco will be required to update all environmental assessment and study reports, associated studies and modelling.”
The company has until Dec. 31 to meet its financial commitments under its contract with the city to build a commercial plant by 2016.
The deal is contingent on several factors, including that Plasco be able to prove to the city that it has secured financing — a deadline Plasco has missed twice.
It’s unclear how these design changes affect the terms of the contract, if at all. Attempts to reach the Plasco spokesman were unsuccessful.
City manager Kent Kirkpatrick said the company informed the city that it had revised its designs into what Plasco believes is a “more cost-effective configuration.”
For example, Plasco plans to build fewer processing strings, but each with greater capacity than the previous design. Still, according to Kirkpatrick, the overall processing capacity could drop to 250 tonnes per day from 3oo, although the company has not provided the city with those specifics.
The contract that council agreed to in December 2011 called for “a 300-tonne-a-day gasification plant.”
Kirkpatrick also said that on Oct. 30, he sent Plasco a “60 day formal written notice” regarding the end-of-year deadline for the company “to provide to the city evidence of their capacity to fund/finance the construction of the Ottawa commercial facility. ?We continue to await their formal response.”
jchianello@ottawacitizen.com
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