Protest halts Six Nations incinerator trial as waste crisis continues – CBC
Residents skeptical of Nova Scotian inventor’s 30-year-old machine
A Six Nations community protest has stalled a band council effort to solve the reserve’s urgent waste crisis using an east coast inventor’s unproven “Disintegrator” incineration technology.
The Six Nations Elected Council (SNEC) made the deal with Nova Scotian inventor John Kearns to use his Disintegrator, invented 30 years ago, which comes with promises of zero emissions, clean ash and the ability — without any sorting — to handle all kinds of waste. The potential purchase by the council would be the first sale of the technology in the three decades since Kearns, 77, has been peddling it.
But the deal is now in doubt after community members forced the demonstration model currently on the reserve to shut down at a recent protest. The protest was spurred by complaints about visible smoke emissions, odour and health concerns.
