The city of Montreal has just extended its contracts to ship much of its compost from the island, particularly to Ontario, while it waits to open its own organic materials processing centers (CTMO).
Published yesterday at 5:04 p.m.
City council's elected officials agreed to extend agreements with the companies currently managing the contents of Montrealers' brown bins until September 30. An expense of about $8 million.
Under these contracts, thousands of tons of Montreal compost are trucked to Moose Creek, Ontario.
These contracts were awarded due to the significant delay in the delivery of the Saint-Laurent composting plant and the Montreal-East biomethanation plant, which should have received these wastes years ago. The construction sites were paralyzed, particularly by trade conflicts.
Following a new agreement between the multinational Veolia and the city of Montreal last spring, which included a budget increase of 32 million, the two CTMOs now have to be completed this year.
“We can hardly wait”
The Plante administration's elected environmental officer, Marie-Andrée Mauger, argued that there were no new delays in the two projects and that these contract extensions were foreseeable.
“We can hardly wait for our two processing centers for organic materials to start operating,” said Marie-Andrée Mauger at Monday’s council meeting. “Both projects are progressing well so far and are on schedule. » The CTMO in Saint-Laurent must be operational from spring 2024, while the one in Montreal East must receive its first tons of compost next fall.
However, the opposition in the town hall criticized the new spending.
“I have lost faith in the credibility of the government, why?[elle promet] is never delivered on time, always at the expense of Montrealers,” complained opposition MP Alan DeSousa.