Back in 2006, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper started researching the environmental effects of burning tires at cement kilns. Not long after, Bath area residents, including our good friend and Trustee for Lake Ontario, Gord Downie, raised alarm bells about one tire burning proposal in particular. The Lafarge Alternative Fuels project, as it was known, was a proposal to burn tires, bone meal, plastics, and pellets made of domestic waste at the cement giant’s plant in Bath, near Kingston. After three years, three legal processes, and hundreds of thousands of dollars spent, the Lafarge Alternative Fuels case is officially over. Air and water in the Bath community will be better off for all our efforts. So will dozens of other communities right across Ontario. An end of an era. Dr. Henry S. Cole is our special guest on today’s show. Dr. Cole explains how the Great Lakes can make air pollution problems worse for shoreline communities.

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