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HAMILTON If you drive down the Burlington Skyway into Hamilton, you might notice a large globe poking out above the wastewater-treatment plant. Painted to look like the Earth, it’s the gas tank for a generation unit that has been turning wastewater sludge into a renewable energy source biogas for more than 15 years.
While biogas projects can be complicated to pull off, advocates say they’re good for the environment and the economy and they’re gaining ground in Hamilton and Niagara.
Biogas is a mix of gases produced when organic matter breaks down in a low-oxygen environment through a process known as anaerobic digestion. It has typically been used to generate electricity, but newer projects are using it to produce renewable natural gas for use as fuel.
(City of Hamilton/NGV Journal) The city of Hamilton and Enbridge Gas publicly announce the first renewable natural gas bus in Ontario. Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) is now the first public transportation authority in Ontario to use this renewable fuel to transport customers. In one year, the HSR bus will use and divert 450 tons of organic waste from the landfill, equivalent to 38 garbage trucks, while also displacing CO2 emissions from 36,000 liters of diesel consumed in a year.
“Renewable natural gas provides an excellent opportunity for the HSR and City of Hamilton to continue our efforts to lower corporate GHG emissions and move toward targets outlined in our Climate Change Emergency declaration and Corporate Energy and Sustainability Policy. We are proud to partner with Enbridge Gas on this innovative initiative that will pave the way to ensure the future of transit in our community is energy efficient and sustainable,” said Mayor of Hamilton Fred Eisenberger.
Hamilton Street Railway s first renewable natural gas powered bus in Ontario. (CNW Group/Enbridge Gas Inc.)
Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) has become Ontario’s first transit system to use renewable natural gas. The province’s first carbon-negative bus is expected to divert 450 tonnes of organic waste from the landfill in a single year. It works out to be the same as 38 garbage trucks.
It will also displace CO2 emissions from 36,000 litres of diesel consumed in a year.
“Renewable natural gas provides an excellent opportunity for the HSR and City of Hamilton to continue our efforts to lower corporate GHG emissions and move toward targets outlined in our climate change emergency declaration and corporate energy and sustainability policy,” Mayor Fred Eisenberger said. “We are proud to partner with Enbridge Gas on this innovative initiative that will pave the way to ensure the future of transit in our community is energy efficient and sustainable.”
Ontario s First Carbon-negative Bus Hits the Road
Enbridge Gas is helping to build one of Canada’s greenest transit fleets
Published 03-04-21
Submitted by Enbridge Inc.
Transit users can now catch a carbon-negative ride on Ontario’s first bus fueled by renewable natural gas (RNG).
The RNG public transit bus hit the road today in Hamilton, in the Golden Horseshoe region of southern Ontario that’s one of North America’s fastest growing regions. It runs on RNG, a cost-effective, low-carbon alternative to diesel fuel, which is supplied by Enbridge Gas Inc. and created in the nearby city of London at the StormFisher biogas facility that processes organic waste.