Posted on 02/20/2019 8:12:24 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Ottawa city councillors approved nearly $800 million in annual spending on garbage, water and the environment on Tuesday, but still came under fire from residents who say the city isn't devoting enough attention to combating climate change.
The City of Ottawa plans to spend $77 million in 2019 to run its garbage, recycling and compost programs, up $2.5 million from the 2018 budget.
Because the city has so much infrastructure to maintain - thousands of kilometres of water mains, two drinking water purification plants and a sewage treatment plant - it also comes with a hefty capital budget: $264 million for 2019.
Groups including Ecology Ottawa questioned the paltry $150,000 the city plans to spend on its centrepiece strategy to move to renewable energy, known as Energy Evolution. That money will be used so staff can finish a major report listing potential projects by year's end.
"I fully embrace your sentiment that we're sitting on a ticking time bomb and no one's panicking," agreed Coun. Riley Brockington. "And when we have $150,000 invested in Energy Evolution, it's insulting."
Some residents also came with their own pitches, such as asking the city to lead by example when it comes to getting residents to ditch plastic water bottles.
Eric Schiller, a water engineer, urged the city to do like Montreal and Prince Edward Island and promote its own cheap, tasty tap water. He asked councillors to ban bottled water from vending machines at city buildings once contracts with beverage companies expire.
"This is the capital of Canada. This will send a message. Please do it," he said.
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Ah, finally. This is the second of the three minimum mandatory climate change articles demanded of all true party progressive journalists.
This one is a bit more transparent - it wants to keep the corrupt tax funds going to more public waste. I’m surprise it didn’t throw in some laughable “analysis” as to how some disaster or other will occur if we fail to fund “belly button recycling, use of glow worms for lighting, or the newest thing in pedal powered generators for the home (see Soylent Green).
Ah yes, must keep the graft flowing for Goebbel’s Warming
but still came under fire from residents
More money will save the penguins!
Measures to “combat” climate change shall be doomed to failure every time they are attempted. For one thing, there is not enough money in all the world to alter any trend in the climate in any way. And secondly (perhaps even more important), nobody has the least notion of how to effectively change climate in any significant way.
Oh, lots of theories and computer models are around. The old adage, “garbage in, garbage out” still holds true. There is no reproducible experiment to test the validity of the proposed theories in any way, and no computer modeling in regards to weather has has yet been produced that does not somehow end in “disaster”.
All those ‘climate change’ scamsters have to keep up the payments on their summer homes.
LOL. This is about as true of a headline as was ever written about “Climate Change”. Keep the money flowing. That is and always has been the goal.
The only city that out loonies Ottawa is maybe Vancouver.
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