I think that Wheelabrator was involved in the Spokane Area Waste to Energy project 20 to 25 years ago. My understanding was they planned to build a business park around the incinerator complex that could get very low cost heat from the burning garbage. The system also was supposed to generate a bunch of low cost electricity and inexpensively get rid of the area garbage.
Every few years the local newspaper does a series on how poorly the scheme actually worked. I have never read about cheap heat for a business park or vast greenhouses. They also don"t say much about how much electricity is generated and actually sold to utilities. And our "tipping fees" are sky high at the garbage transfer stations, which is the only LEGAL way to get rid of most garbage. I don"t know if they do any recycling of components of the garbage at the facility, but I have read that the ash that comes from what they burn is considered hazardous waste, which is hauled to a special landfill in another state, maybe Oregon.
It sure sounds like Wheelabrator and/or Waste Management sold our area a real bill of goods, which we will continue to have to pay for, probably until the plant wears out.
Wheelabrator is not a good topic in the Spokane area!
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