A case for change transforming solid waste mangement in nova scotia

A Case for Change – A Climate Change Innovative Technology NOW Opportunity for Nova Scotia

Facts About Plasma Gasification – An Environmental and Economic Development Solution for Nova Scotia

Nova Waste Solutions Inc.

Premier’s State of the Province Address

• … admitted to some frustration with Nova Scotians who don’t seem able to accept change.

• “People say ‘we don’t like the status quo’, but they don’t want change,” he said.

• “Change is happening, and it impacts each of us differently — some good, some not. But the status quo is not an option for this province.”

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What did Halifax Residents Say about Solid Waste?

August ,2013 by CRA, 526 metro residents over 18 were polled Slide 3

There is Support for Plasma Gasification

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August ,2013 by CRA, 526 metro residents over 18 were polled

National Per Capita Cost Comparison

Nova Waste Solutions Inc.Stats Canada 2013

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Changing the Status Quo

• “At about $657 {$387.00 operating only} per tonne, our average disposal cost is nearly double what New Brunswick and Alberta pay. It’s unsustainable for this province, our residents and our businesses. It also varies significantly across our own province.”

Minister of Environment, 23 October 2015Note: The cost, as noted, has been revised to remove capital costs.

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Why are the costs so high??

• Regulated program policy of “banning materials from landfill” created materials requiring management without established market demand

• Absence of market demand did not support private investment in processing facilities which required the public sector to assume responsibility for all banned materials, public and private/commercial


NS Regulated Solid Waste Report Card

1990s regulatory changes transformed waste management in NS, 20 years later:

– $387.00 - Highest average per tonne operating cost in the country (Stats Canada)

– $82.39 - Highest per capita cost in Canada (Avg. $58.18)– $11.22 - Highest per capita cost for organics (5X Avg. of

$2.18)– Example: Halifax SWM operating & capital = ~$560.00 total

(January, 2014)– Example: RRFB ~$750.00 per tonne (2014)– 55-60% diversion - ongoing landfill dependency & legacy

environmental impacts of methane GHG and leachate– Escalating unsustainable municipal service program costs


Stats Canada - Climate Impact of Landfills

• Methane is 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide in terms of its global warming potential.

• Emissions from Canadian landfills account for 20% of national methane emissions.

• Estimates have shown that approximately 27 Mega-tonnes (Mt) of carbon dioxide equivalent (eCO2) are generated annually from Canadian landfills, of which 20 Mt eCO2 are being emitted annually.



Climate Change Impact of Landfill Methane GHG

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NS Mirrors National Emissions

Waste represents 3-4% equivalent CO2 but its methane, the most harmful GHG!

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Changing the Status Quo in Solid Waste Management

• Enhanced plasma gasification (WTE) is now proven, operational and economically feasible

• WTE resource processing represents:– Eliminating landfill dependency & legacy harmful impacts– Creating 300+ new skilled jobs in rural NS communities– Reducing overall service program costs which are

straining municipal and business budgets – Climate change affecting innovative technology projects

aligned with federal climate impacting funding program– Generating clean storable renewable syngas for energy,

heat & power


NS WTE Strategic Facility Siting Plan


Several municipal stakeholders have indicated interest in confirming feasibility study validated program cost savings

A Potential Project Site: Mersey Port


The Mersey Port site represents:1. Unique opportunity to

introduce advanced waste conversion technology into an existing brownfield facility site.

2. Ideally situated to support waste recycling and processing for entire South Shore, Western and Valley Regions with 65-85 plus jobs.

3. Offers additional fabrication capabilities and port services for projects being developed across NS, Canada and the Caribbean for even more skilled jobs.

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Where the Current Jobs are in SWM


Most costly system components {organics, C&D, landfills} employ least number of people. New WTE processing facilities would offset the transfer of some jobs.

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WTE - An Environmental Solution

“While some still confuse modern waste-to-energy plants with incinerators of the past, the environmental performance of the industry is beyond reproach. Studies have shown:• communities that employ waste-to-energy

technology have higher recycling rates than communities that do not utilize waste-to-energy. ”

Salman Zafar, Renewable Energy ExpertNova Waste Solutions Inc.Slide 16

A Case for Change

The waste management transformation opportunity:• Advanced WTE has been scientifically established

separate and distinct from incineration• Advanced WTE is accepted as a environmental solution.• Advanced WTE enables envisioned stewardship and

eliminates landfill dependency through:– 100% recycling of marketable resource materials from

a two stream processing system– 100% re-use of non-marketable resource materials for

clean renewable storable energy, heat & power– 100% re-use of residual inert, non-impacting materials


Unsustainable $/Tonne Created by Current Regulations

• Status Quo: Solid waste service program costs represent unsustainable municipal and business tax burdens.

• October, 2015, The Minister of Environment outlined a new perspective on Advanced Waste Conversion technology systems. They are to be:– regulated separate and distinct from incineration– subject to an Environmental Assessment level one review for

WTE industrial permit• However, WTE project viability hinges on proposed program

policy of banned from landfill means banned from WTE! • The question is WHY??

– Where is the logic in this policy given NS biomass incinerators and anaerobic digestion reactors??


Municipal Service Program Cost Relief

• Reduce Municipal/Business Waste Service Program Costs by:– Consolidating 3, 4 or 5 waste streams to 2 (blue

recycling & green re-use for clean renewable energy)– Streamline collection systems using split trucks

significantly reducing program costs & emissions– Eliminate costly processing of materials with no

market value– Reduce business costs with fewer receptacles, less

infrastructure, space and mess!– Make the system easier & less costly for all Nova

ScotiansNova Waste Solutions Inc.Slide 19


Environmental Benefits for Nova Scotia

• Immediate impact on reducing methane GHG emissions

• Immediate impact on legacy landfill issues

• Reduce transportation/hauling emissions

• Reduce organics processing emissions

• Introduce Nova Scotian processing of special and hazardous waste such as asbestos and contaminated sludge {Boat Harbour}

• Reduce health authority waste system costs by processing special waste travelling to PEI for incineration

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Job Creation based on 4 Facilities

• 300 skilled positions in Nova Scotia based on 65 plus jobs at each waste recycling, processing and conversion facility

• 25-35 initial additional jobs for system component fabrication at existing infrastructure at the Port Mersey site, expanding to additional fabrication jobs for other projects

• Additional jobs in port operations & transportation for exporting/importing system components for national and global projects

• Additional jobs for recyclables management/storage and transshipment to market

• Additional jobs in special waste management and processing, site remediation, ship deconstruction, etc…


What are the issues for opposition to Advanced Waste Conversion WTE?

• Public would see it as a negative?– Survey data > 80% support WTE/landfill

alternative• Not environmental stewardship?

– Empirical data shows dramatically improved environmental outcomes, climate impact and recycling

• Does not respect hierarchy of resource management– Zero waste is (re) using resources completely

without creating a negative. 70% of waste still ends up in landfills, isn’t this a better option??


Positive Change Needs to Happen NOW

• Political leadership is:– Challenging industry to invest in innovative

technologies – Looking for new industries to build and grow

the economy in rural communities– Seeking ways to reduce service program costs– Seeking ways to improve the sustainability of

Nova Scotia’s way of life• WTE addresses all of these objectives!


Project Development Timeline

• At least four municipalities are looking to identify an alternative to replacing landfill cell construction programmed over the next 2-3 years in 2017-2019

– Feasibility Study- March - June 2016

– Environmental Impact Assessment – 6-10 months concurrent to project plan development and registration for funding programs

– Project construction – 15-20 months

– Facility commissioning – winter / spring 2018Nova Waste Solutions Inc.Slide 24

What Needs to Happen NOW?

• DOE needs to confirm and issue revised regulations on WTE, clearly showing support and promotion of this environmental solution.

• DOE needs to clarify the policy to not restrict what is permitted for processing in Advanced WTE systems enabling all non-marketable resource materials to be processed for re-use to clean storable renewable energy.

• DOE needs to establish internal plan to oversee review

of WTE EA 1 industrial permits to process project submissions.


Innovative Technology System Solution Overview: Enhanced Plasma Gasification

Established, Proven, Growing

• The Gasification Industry:

– 272 operating gasification plants worldwide with 686 gasifiers.

– 74 plants under construction worldwide that will have a total of 238 gasifiers and produce 83 MWth.

– 33 gasification plants in the US– China has the largest number of gasification plants.

{WWW, Gasification Technologies Council, The Gasification Industry, http://www.gasification.org/what-is-gasification/the-gasification-industry/, 1 MARCH, 2015.}

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http://www.gasification.org/what-is-gasification/the-gasification-industry/

Gasification and Plasma Gasification Plants in NA


http://www.gasification.org/what-is-gasification/map-of-facilities/




Plasma Gasification = Zero Waste


NO LANDFILL REQUIRED

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Waste resources processed, recyclables removed, remaining resources shredded, dried and sent to gasifier.

There is a small quantity of bottom ash or slag which is recyclable as a civil construction aggregate.

NWSI Technology Partner

C.H.O-Power• Patented Enhanced Multi-Phased Plasma Gasification• Proven, Operational & Cost Effective• 25 years in development through parent company

Europlasma• Global footprint of projects• First plant operational and sold• 3 Additional Facilities being developed• 8 more facilities Programmed• Operational Morcenx plant currently processing:

– Mixed Municipal Solid Waste– Bio-Mass


Patented Enhanced Multi-Phased Process


Morcenx, France

• 1st of 12 {$40 Million Euro Plant} • #s 2,3 &4 in Development


Overhead View of Morcenx Facility Components


Nova Waste Solutions Inc. Partners


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