Dive summary:
- A purposed initiative would bring 300,000 tons of trash from New York City to the Niagara Fall incinerator to help power nearby industries.
- A rail line would bring in the trash to the waste-to-energy facility owned by Covanta; the project would also include building a transfer station, a steam pipeline and a natural gas-fired boiler.
- Currently waste is hauled in from Canada as well as the U.S., collectively about 300 trucks bring in 800,000 tons of trash every year.
From the article:
Covanta Energy, which operates an energy-from-waste incinerator on 56th Street, applied for a tax break on a multipronged $30 million expansion project.
Covanta business manager Kevin O’Neil said the project includes a $7 million steam pipeline to the new Greenpac paper mill; a natural gas-fired boiler to back up the garbage incinerator that produces the steam; a rail transfer station to accept the trash from Manhattan; and a special waste-handling facility to prepare the garbage for burning. ...
