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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