Tire Fire

20 Replies to “Tire Fire”

1. ‘Burning Virgins’…
   How many forest fire trees have NEVER been harvested are catching fire???

   I bet that number close to 99% in Canada.

   1. That is a startling number, but i wonder if that’s close.

      In a country that constantly pleads for economy of usage, we pour milk on the ground.

      That level of fascism is not something that should exist in a free country.

      It’s just another form of slavery to serve the marxist scum.

      But, i can go with tire fires. We have such a low CO2 content, tire fires would really help to get get that number closer to where it needs to be.

      Also, they make great Ho Chi Minh sandals.

2. Back in the day of the ‘Hagersville tire fire’ (which was in a stockpile of spent tires on the local Indian reserve), the cement plants of St. Mary’s Ontario offered to burn every used tire in Ontario as fuel for their kilns. They claimed the temperature of the burn would have virtually zero emissions. Couldn’t have such a simple solution. Thus we have a whole bureaucracy built up for the management of old tires in Ontario.

   1. A freind of mine who travels to Central America regularly says it is common down there, 1 tire per kiln revolution. (Kiln revolution, not government revolution………..)

      Nimbys overrule that being done here even if environmentaly possible.

      1. Very interesting. Thank you for the information

         1. You are welcome.

      2. In the ’80s, cement plants similarly offered to burn PCB laced transformer oil to fuel their kilns, instead of trucking it all over the country where in leaked out on the roads. Again, NIMBYs said that if even one part per billion wasn’t incinerated the risk was too great.

   2. Reply to farmerboy
      If I recall, after the Hagersville fire, the government brought in a $5 per tire ‘recycling’ fee (plus HST). Since government revenue streams are not targeted and go into general revenues, they did nothing about recycling tires. Consumers had to pay an additional $5 fee per tire (plus HST) for retailers to actually dispose of the tires. If tires are now biomass, do we get those fees back (or at least eliminated)?

3. Fred Flintstone was way ahead of his time.

4. Stockpiles of old railway ties are being shipped to the US and burned as bio-fuel to produce so called green electricity.

   1. Back in the day I worked at a seed corn plant. The discard seed corn, with treatment on it, was shipped back to Iowa to be burned in cement plants. Any pollution would drift back towards southwestern Ontario with the prevailing winds. Has anyone in government ever looked at the the drift patterns of air pollution from China?

      1. Probably the chicoms. But likely at Canadian expense.

      2. I read somewhere once that approximately 30-40% of pollution on the west coast of North America is courtesy of the Chicoms.

   2. I’m sure they remove all the creosote from the ties before burning them

      1. Creosote is what makes the ties a great energy source, coal based tar.

         It can’t be removed as it is soaked into the tie quite a ways in.

5. The story is that when Ontario banned burning used tires for fuel in cement kilns, the tires were shipped to Michigan instead.

   As a result, Ontario continued to get the pollution and Michigan cement manufacturers got a competitive advantage! A lose – lose proposition.

   1. I smell a grave industry for the taking.

   2. Considering the cement industry is basicly a France based monopoly, the choice of plant location didn’t matter.

6. Just ship the tires to China and burn them … because nobody would notice.

7. Back in the day when we preferred to burn slash rather than forests, it was amazing how much easier debris accumulations in landings would go up when there were tires involved. And so much cheaper than napalm.