Second primary burner to be installed at regional incinerator
By Tanya Collier, Cape Breton Post, February 19, 1999
A $100,000 second primary burner will be installed
at the regional incinerator by the end of February.
Arun Chatterjee, environmental engineer with the
Department of Environment, was involved in a
number of studies completed at the Cape Breton
Regional Municipality (CBRM) incinerator in 1998.
Following his efforts, he suggested the addition of a
second primary burner.
Chatterjee, whose experience mainly entails
combustion and air pollution control, also
recommended operator training and a surprise
audit by the department once a month. Both have
been carried out since April.
“They haven’t violated any requirements.”
He is now part of another investigation concerning
the burning of biomedical waste at the incinerator.
The department is attempting to determine how
used syringes, blood product containers and
additional unidentifiable hospital products were
visible in a video at the facility’s landfill.
Marlene Kane, a concerned citizen and member of
the Joint Action Group (JAG), videotaped and
photographed the waste in January and made her
findings public soon after.
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