Floreat Grimsby In Medio Horti
While the biodigester is still taking it’s first baby steps after only a few months of operation, Grimsby Energy is already publicizing a potential partnership with Union Gas.
You can read more in this Niagara This Week article:
https://www.niagarathisweek.com/news-story/7970544-gas-company-investigating-renewable-gas-opportunities-at-biodigester/
Another Council meeting has come and gone and as usual we have the notes for you. In short, money changed hands and Metrolinx surprised most aldermen with their presentation at Monday’s Council meeting.
The agenda can be found at: https://grimsby.civicweb.net/filepro/documents?expanded=542,543,79798&preview=88267
Here are our highlights of the evening:
Propaganda? Damage control?
To pay for an advertisement encouraging the public to share “feel good” comments with the local media about a very expensive and questionable piece of equipment (supported by the Town and taxpayers) … it seems like it.
Another topic of late that has been heating up (along with the supposed Biodigester), is where did the $9 million in proceeds go from Grimsby’s sale of it’s share of Niagara Regional Broadband Networks?
Photo Credit: GEI
For those who attended Monday night’s Council meeting (and it was basically a packed house), most of us walked away with more questions on the Biodigester than what we had walking into the meeting. It was rather interesting to see the “canned speech” which attempted to (and failed miserably) answer the questions that people are asking.
Ordinary residents and Members of Council alike have been asking for months for an update to the over budget, much delayed and much reviled Biodigester project sitting up top of the mountain.
After plenty of stalling, we have all been promised an update at the next Council Meeting this coming Monday (July 17th). Given the recent “developments’ (or a lack thereof when considering the project as a whole), we are sure it will be a well-attended meeting.
While we are generally in a “slower cycle” when it comes to happenings at Town Hall at this time of year, we thought it apt to occasionally take a look back at topics of interest and see how we got where they are (or aren’t, if that’s the case).
If you have been following the progress of the Grimsby Biodigester Biodisaster project, besides the significant delays, possible future treatment of processed sewage you will probably have noticed that the whole project is cloaked in more secrecy than a “Skunk Works” project at Area 51.
As the Biodigester seems to be the talk of the Town in as of late, recent articles in Niagara This Week and Niagara News Now are taking aim squarely at the risk-proposition this project has become.
(Photo: Owen Sound Biodigester – Ours isn’t finished…. yet)
Despite several Aldermen’s unanswered requests for updates of the Biodigester over the past few Council meetings, it looks like the pressure has just cranked up on the project a few more notches.
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