Gold River - Vancouver, Canada
A clean and renewable energy solution for British Columbia
Gold River Power is a sustainable waste management system that will serve Metro Vancouver and Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Canada). Covanta will redevelop the dormant Gold River Pulp and Paper Mill into a modern electricity-generating Energy-from-Waste (EfW) facility to convert up to 750,000 tonnes per year of post-recycled municipal solid waste produced by Metro Vancouver and other regions into 100 megawatts of clean, renewable energy. The project will receive waste delivered to a new transfer facility located adjacent to the Fraser River which will first process the waste and recover recyclables. Residual waste will then be transported in sealed containers by ocean-going barge from the Lower Mainland to the Gold River site.
Gold River Power is a sustainable, clean, reliable answer to Metro Vancouver’s challenge to find long term solutions for the disposal of post-recycled solid waste. The project proposed by Covanta Energy will:
- Significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the region
- Improve air quality in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley by lowering mobile sources of emissions
- Produce 100 megawatts of clean, reliable, renewable power generation to process steam for nearby industrial use
- Generate $900 million in economic activity region wide during construction
- Create 1,000 new construction jobs for three years and more than 100 full-time positions while in operation
- Preserve open spaces by diverting waste from landfills