Redpath Co-generation Gas Plant (Queens Quay East)

[Platform 27]

Looks like the OPA has squashed this for now.

A plan to create a more reliable electricity grid has come unplugged after the OPA rejected the latest proposals to build three cogeneration plants in the GTA.

A spokesperson for the power authority would only say in an email that the proposals, at Redpath Sugar on the waterfront, Atlantic Packaging in Scarborough and GM in Oshawa, didn’t meet “the necessary criteria.”

Cogeneration plants, called combined heat and power, can be twice as energy-efficient as natural gas-fired power plants and have been championed by the Ontario Clean Air Alliance. They burn gas to create electricity, but use the by-product — heat — to create steam for industrial use. The OPA wanted to add 300 megawatts in total to the grid in Southern Ontario.

But it’s doubtful, had the plans been approved, that Toronto’s aging infrastructure could have handled the extra load, says Tanya Bruckmueller, spokesperson for Toronto Hydro.

 

[Automation Gallery]

Its not dead yet....from DCN http://www.dailycommercialnews.com/...61dd3e7dde49&projectid=9140467&region=ontario

COGENERATION PROJECT Proj: 9140467-8
Toronto, Metro Toronto Reg ON CONTEMPLATED
Queens Quay Cogeneration, Queens Quay E, M5E 1L7
$103,000,000 est
Note: Owner is preparing a formal bid to the Ontario Power Authority. Schedules for design, tender, and construction will be determined pending approvals. Further update fall 2014.
Project: proposed construction of a gas-fired cogeneration plant.
Scope: 2 storeys; 4 hectares
Development: Engineering
Category: Elect power, building; Elect power, engineering

 

[DSC]

Its not dead yet....from DCN http://www.dailycommercialnews.com/...d961dd3e7dde49&projectid=9140467®ion=ontario

COGENERATION PROJECT Proj: 9140467-8
Toronto, Metro Toronto Reg ON CONTEMPLATED
Queens Quay Cogeneration, Queens Quay E, M5E 1L7
$103,000,000 est
Note: Owner is preparing a formal bid to the Ontario Power Authority. Schedules for design, tender, and construction will be determined pending approvals. Further update fall 2014.
Project: proposed construction of a gas-fired cogeneration plant.
Scope: 2 storeys; 4 hectares
Development: Engineering
Category: Elect power, building; Elect power, engineering

DCN is really not a very reliable source but we shall see ....

 

[hawc]

What a ridiculous wall. Is that design really going ahead? When Red Path eventually moves on we're going to have a HUGE concrete wall on the waterfront.

 

[salsa]

What a ridiculous wall. Is that design really going ahead? When Red Path eventually moves on we're going to have a HUGE concrete wall on the waterfront.

Too late.


Toronto Skyline by MafaldaBoy, on Flickr

 

[khris]

I think he's referring to the one that is lower.

 

[Automation Gallery]

Sorry, seems like the only place i could post this article
plus Great Video...http://www.newswire.ca/news-release...me-lapse-video-by-local-artist-538400722.html

Redpath Sugar Reminds Toronto of its History on the Waterfront

TORONTO, Oct. 29, 2015 /CNW/ - Redpath Sugar is reminding the City of Toronto of its strong ties to the waterfront, with a beautiful time-lapse video created by a local digital artist.

The company's roots date back to 1854 when John Redpath established the first sugar factory in Montreal. In 1930, Redpath Sugarmerged with Canada Sugar Refining Company Limited of Chatham, Ontario. The factory was built on the Toronto waterfront in the late 1950s and today, the Redpath logo still reflects its founder's actual signature and is the country's oldest continuously used food trademark.

"To demonstrate our rich history on the waterfront and our love for Toronto, we developed a video that illustrates our beginnings here and how the waterfront has changed so much over the years," said Jonathan Bamberger, President of Redpath Sugar. "We specifically constructed the factory here in 1959 because of the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway to larger ships and to target the food processing hub growing in southern Ontario. That hub is now one of the largest in North America."

Today, Redpath proudly employs more than 300 people at its Canadian operations in Belleville and Toronto.

"This has always been our home, and it's why we have an unwavering commitment to always do better. As part of the Food and Beverage sector, we represent the fourth largest economic cluster in Toronto. We must always do our part to enhance the economic development of the communities where we operate," said Bamberger.

 

[Riverdale Rink Rat]

I've always enjoyed watch the freighters come in and sugar being unloaded at Redpath. It was a really fun thing to do with our daughters when they were little, and I imagine it's a thousand times better now with the hill/rock/beach as a place to sit with a 4 year old.

 

[UrbanHarbourfront]

Redpath took down its giant, glowing, red logo this summer and hasn't replaced it. The plant is ugly -- but the sign had some charm to it. Don't know if it was malfunctioning, or a hazard, but it hasn't been replaced.

 

[AndreaPalladio]

I thought it was longer ago than that. They had the Tate & Lyle name up there for a while, until it was sold.

 

[UrbanHarbour]

It looked like this in the Spring:

But now looks like this:

They did some work replacing windows at the front this summer. But stopped halfway. I hoped the sign had come down as they prepared to paint the building. But that was months ago and now doesn't look likely.

 

[Skeezix]

I thought it was longer ago than that. They had the Tate & Lyle name up there for a while, until it was sold.

Good memory. I'd forgotten that. The Tate & Lyle name replaced the Redpath name on the north face, but the Redpath logo on the west face hadn't been removed - until now.

 

[UrbanFervour]

So while we're celebrating the ugly past, let's remember the Tate & Lyle sugar empire was built on the backs of slaves.

http://www.economist.com/node/21556890

 

[Tulse]

To be fair, I think that the labour practices of any business operating in that era would not bear modern scrutiny. That is not to dismiss the particular horrors of slavery, but instead to recognize that the capitalism of that time committed various horrors with those whose labour it used.

 

[AndreaPalladio]

Quite right that we should remember that when we buy sugar and golden syrup at the supermarket, go the various Tate galleries in England, or for a present day example, use Apple products, given their unsavoury labour practices.