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Coach Nino Rafanelli gives his 3-ON-3 crew a game plan during a water break during Saturday’s Happening at The Forty tournament on Main Street Grimsby. Team members were ( L to R) Kenyan Sikkema, Luka Rafanelli, Nathan Schletta, Paolo Fazzari and Suhkvir Bassi. For more coverage, please turn to Page 6. Williscraft - Photo
Biodigester powers up, dividends coming: Bacchus Mike Williscraft NewsNow No project cost details, a lot of blue sky projections and nothing in writing were the hallmarks of Grimsby Energy Chair Shafee Bacchus’s oral report to town council Monday regarding the bio-
digester. Bacchus provided council with some nuts and bolts of how the project has been operating since it was first fired up last fall. He said it was coming along “very slowly” with about 5 per cent increases in perfor-
mance monthly, projecting the facility to be up to speed by year’s end or early into 2019. “It takes 125 days for inputs to create gas. It’s a balancing act,” said Bacchus of getting the best recipe for methane production.
He did note some technical things, such as the facility eats up 80 cubic metres of feed stock daily. He added that many of their contracts for input material are at a minimal cost, or even no cost in some cases. New on the revenue
side is the potential of “engine fees”, Bacchus said. He noted they are not allowed to charge tipping fees, but engine fees, he projected, could bring in as much as $155,000 in revenue which was not part of their initial business
plan. Bacchus said hydro officials have had several inquiries about partnerships - including from Enbridge Gas about obtaining excess methane produced and they are looking at the potential sale of See GAS, Page 3