Farming is in our blood, but you won't find this livestock running around loose on the pasture. The happy couple are prolific progenitors, and there is no law against child labour in the bug world. Millions of little workers made out of garbage!
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There is a quick way to determine if land application of biosolids is a good idea. Would you dump it on your garden? The current controversy around biosolids on Vancouver Island is nearly unbelievable. In what alternate universe would the individuals responsible even consider doing that to their garden?
This letter does a good job of summarizing the problem. Although as a pre-process value add that can be plugged in upstream to any solution, our "insects as energy" biotech doesn't even get past the gate-keepers in a closed shop so tightly sealed off that we can not even get the contact information for the short-listed proponents that have been invited to respond to the upcoming RFP. We will leave out the contact information as a courtesy, but this is the response from the CRD: "apologies for the delay getting back to you. After discussing internally, I don’t think it is appropriate for me to be passing along contract information that we received as part of the RFEOI process to third parties. I’m sure the short-listed companies have appropriate contact information up on their web-pages." Nearly 300 acres of fair-good native pasture available for 2024 cow/calf operation.
May 2023 Google Street View here:
Catches precipitation anomaly with historically more rain than surrounding areas. Canada drought monitor A good metric by which to evaluate public policy for waste disposal is; would you dump it on your garden?
It defies logical explanation that waste too toxic to be dumped in the ocean would then be ok to dump on land. Take that practice out 50 or 100 years with increasing population density. It's self-evident that sewage sludge should not be disposed of anywhere that it can not be fixed in place and even then, without treatment to render it inert. Anaerobic digestion combined with thermal processing such as pyrolysis and gasification have proven to be expensive and technically problematic, particularly for smaller communities that can not spread the infrastructure costs across a large population. We think we our "insects as energy" solution is the game-changer. It works for kitchen waste on the front end. Why not sewage waste, on the back end? It's a difficult challenge to overcome the "optics" necessary to bring forward a proposal in an infrastructure space such as waste management. The gatekeepers on government staff look at "organizational capacity," a purely superficial consideration built largely on BS that tends to direct RFP's for solutions to existing organizations that function a lot like government, and do not even maintain a large local footprint. They will typically staff a local office with an over-worked and underpaid rep, tied back to a parent organization that is not even Canadian.
That practice structurally excludes innovation. Our "insects as energy" solution is a case-study in point. It was obvious from the outset that shipping the Class A biosolids from the CRD plant for consumption in the LaFarge cement plant on the mainland was not only CO2e positive, but not fault tolerant and it was going to be a fail. We said so at the time. It did, and now biosolids are being landfilled, with a predictable public push-back. This time around maybe we can convince someone that the skill set developed on a farm in financing, building and operating industrial process equipment that handles large volume high-tonnage grain, and raising and transporting livestock to market is fully transferable to a waste management infrastructure project that is basically a farm. We don't need to be a multi-national. |
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