What the environmental wackos don't understand is that they are actually doing a great service to the environment by burning these tires. A tire in rubber form left abandoned in a landfill does greater harm to the environment than burning them to make energy does. Burning tires is a highly effective and environmentally safe way to recycle tires. The only problem is the environmental wackos think that burning a tire will harm the environment. The process in which it is done is so re-fined that is does little to any harm to the environment, but you can't explain that to the wacko environmentalists. They should call is recycling tires instead of burning tires, and they would immediately be for it.
I will concede that the process is not as clean as natural gas or even clean coal but coal isn't lying around or clogging up landfills - nor are people paying big money in the northeast to haul away coal...
And if you never even do a trial (which is what this is) how is the process going to improve? Would coal burning be as clean as is now if we had simply banned coal in 1970? No, but heating oil would be $4 a gallon.