With just five words quietly slipped into legislation…
Illinois lawmakers are moving to include tire burning in the state’s definition of renewable energy…
Wait for the howler…
“This is the sort of cynical legislative maneuvering that makes people question the credibility of our elected officials…
Via Tim Blair.
What next, burning garbage?
Technically those tires are garbage!
We should have never quit burning garbage in the first place. Now it’s trucked away to be preserved eternally underground while the smart people try to find ways to burn food instead.
I was getting a tour of the Royal Alex hospital one day and my guide pointed out an old abandoned incinerator. He said that they used to use the incinerator to burn hazardous material and then use the heat to warm the hospital. Now they truck the garbage all the way to Swan Hills (3+ hrs) to be burned and simply let the heat warm the black bears hiding in the bush.
Kate is bang on. Garbage collection at two sites used to cost our municipality about forty-five hundred a year, now trucking it to Saskatoon’s north pimple cost fifty grand. Just chump change for the ratepayer.
I believe they burn tires in New Jersey to improve the local air quality.
The reason we had to quit burning garbage is because no one adhered to the Monday washday no burn bylaw. Clothes always stunk after hanging them on the line.
Kate
[…..We should have never quit burning garbage in the first place. Now it’s trucked away to be preserved eternally underground while the smart people try to find ways to burn food instead.]
Heresy!!! You will be denounced by some non-practicing geneticist with a CBC TV show.
Tires make economical safe fuel for cement kilns….until BOOB RAE banned tire incineration in Ontario. Cement kilns operate a temperature which can completely destroy PCBs…..but then that was before our breath was toxic…..
“The ChicagO Way”?
See RTips for an electable O’version. If filter allows.
Some of the Oberbamma’s friends enjoy burning tires; what was once done in Balaclavas in France and England will now be an acceptable, lawful activity in the streets of the USA. Will Canada be next to offer this intoxicating activity?