{"id":1156,"date":"2026-04-26T23:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hiclover.com\/ad\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2026-04-26T23:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:35:20","slug":"new-metro-incinerator-would-cost-1-3-billion-more-than-planned-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiclover.com\/ad\/new-metro-incinerator-would-cost-1-3-billion-more-than-planned-study\/","title":{"rendered":"New Metro incinerator would cost $1.3 billion more than planned: study"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Metro Vancouver is taking more heat over its plan to build a second garbage incinerator, with a new study commissioned by waste company Belkorp Environmental Services suggesting the move could cost up to $1.3 billion more than originally estimated.<\/p>\n

The analysis, conducted by ICF International on behalf of Belkorp, comes as Metro Vancouver attempts to deal with the province\u2019s rejection of its proposed Bylaw 280, which was integral to its solid waste management plan because it would have ensured garbage generated in Metro was kept in the region.<\/p>\n

Belkorp, which runs the Cache Creek dump, has been involved in a high-profile lobbying campaign against Bylaw 280 as well as Metro Vancouver\u2019s plans to burn the region\u2019s waste rather than landfill it. Metro is slated to close the Cache Creek dump in 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re still fighting for options that are better than the incinerator,\u201d said Russ Black, Belkorp\u2019s vice-president of corporate development. \u201cIrrespective of Bylaw 280, we still wanted to show the true costs of the incinerator.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report, by ICF\u2019s lead author Seth Hulkower, suggests Metro Vancouver significantly overestimated the revenue it would earn by selling electricity from the new incinerator to BC Hydro over a period of 35 years.<\/p>\n

Metro had suggested it would seek to negotiate a price of $100 per kilowatt hour from BC Hydro, but Hulkower noted the waste-to-energy business plan doesn\u2019t take into account that BC Hydro may adjust the price it pays for electricity after Metro recovers it capital outlay on the project.<\/p>\n

Metro Vancouver chairman Greg Moore said he\u2019s not surprised with the study\u2019s findings, saying it\u2019s a point that has long been argued by Belkorp.<\/p>\n

But he said the analysis is premature considering that Metro has at least 10 proponents offering different forms of waste-to-energy, including district heat and gasification, and there are several potential scenarios.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t know anything about what we\u2019re doing in our (request-for-proposals) process \u2026 all of them are not based on selling to Hydro,\u201d Moore said.<\/p>\n

He added Metro has experience running a waste-to-energy plant, having done so in Burnaby since 1988, while Belkorp is interested in setting up multi-material recovery facilities and ensuring the dump continues to operate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are relentless in pursuit of their agenda to continue to have garbage going to their landfill,\u201d Moore said. \u201cUntil that decision is made I don\u2019t think they\u2019ll stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

Belkorp already has a Coquitlam site where it proposes to build a facility to take a \u201clast pass\u201d at waste to remove recyclables such as organics, paper, plastics and metals, a move that would ultimately rob the region of enough material to fuel another waste-to-energy facility.<\/p>\n

Black acknowledged multi-material recovery facilities directly compete with incinerators but say they make sense. \u201cWhen you look at the range of costs, there\u2019s some serious questions that have to be addressed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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