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The company that once promised an amazing solution to Ottawa’s garbage is having to meet stricter conditions from the city as it tears down its failed waste-to-energy plant.
City manager Kent Kirkpatrick, who led negotiations for a deal with Plasco Energy Group, wrote to city council Friday afternoon to say that the city won some minor victories that morning in the bankruptcy court overseeing Plasco’s closure. Plasco built a “demonstration facility” to test its technology on city land across the street from Ottawa’s main landfill on Trail Road, which it’s now having to take apart even as it struggles to pay its bills.
The court imposed “requirements that Plasco and its demolition contractor provide the city with evidence of appropriate insurance prior to commencing demolition work and an explicit acknowledgement of obligations owed to the city by Plasco under its lease and related agreements with the city,” Kirkpatrick wrote.
Figuring out how to demolish the plant safely is one of the big challenges as Plasco winds down. The city worked hard to keep taxpayers from ending up on the hook if Plasco’s “plasma gasification” technology for turning garbage into electricity failed, but those protections largely depended on Plasco having the money to close its operations in an orderly fashion.
When Plasco filed for bankruptcy protection, the city became just another creditor lined up at the counter, asking that the company honour obligations that by definition it cannot meet.
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City manager Kent Kirkpatrick, who led negotiations for a deal with Plasco Energy Group, wrote to city council Friday afternoon to say that the city won some minor victories that morning in the bankruptcy court overseeing Plasco’s closure. Plasco built a “demonstration facility” to test its technology on city land across the street from Ottawa’s main landfill on Trail Road, which it’s now having to take apart even as it struggles to pay its bills.
The court imposed “requirements that Plasco and its demolition contractor provide the city with evidence of appropriate insurance prior to commencing demolition work and an explicit acknowledgement of obligations owed to the city by Plasco under its lease and related agreements with the city,” Kirkpatrick wrote.
Figuring out how to demolish the plant safely is one of the big challenges as Plasco winds down. The city worked hard to keep taxpayers from ending up on the hook if Plasco’s “plasma gasification” technology for turning garbage into electricity failed, but those protections largely depended on Plasco having the money to close its operations in an orderly fashion.
When Plasco filed for bankruptcy protection, the city became just another creditor lined up at the counter, asking that the company honour obligations that by definition it cannot meet.
dreevely@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/davidreevely
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