Posted on 04/23/2014 3:02:46 PM PDT by NYer
VICTORIA, British Columbia, April 23, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British Columbia Health Ministry has admitted that the remains of babies destroyed by abortion in B.C. facilities are ending up in a waste-to-power facility in the United States, providing electricity for residents of Oregon.
The province’s Health Ministry said in an email to the B.C. Catholic that “biomedical waste” shipped to the U.S. to be incinerated includes “human tissue, such as surgically removed cancerous tissue, amputated limbs, and fetal tissue.”
“The ministry understands that some is transferred to Oregon. There it is incinerated in a waste-to-energy plant,” the email stated.
The ministry said that contractors handling the province’s “biomedical waste” follow “health and safety protocols, as well as federal, provincial, and local regulations.”
Kristan Mitchell, executive director of the Oregon Refuse and Recycling Association, told the B.C. Catholic that the “biomedical waste” likely ends up at the Covanta Marion waste-to-energy facility in Oregon since it is the only facility that uses waste to power the grid. The facility confirmed that it still receives and incinerates B.C. medical waste.
The power facility, located in Brookes just off the I-5, burns waste in two massive boilers at a temperature of about 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The heat transfers into water tubes, which creates steam to drive turbines. The turbines generate electricity.
A 2007 article about the Marion waste-to-energy facility that appeared in the Willamette Live — ironically titled “Burn, Baby, Burn” — stated that at the time the incinerator burned about 800 tons (1,764,000 pounds) of medical waste per year.
“Medical waste is brought to the facility in sealed boxes and is carried to the furnace on a conveyor belt which layers it with the rest of the solid waste being processed,” the article states.
Locals at the time protested the “importation and burning of medical waste,” expressing concern about breathing “toxic emissions.”
The news comes one month after the remains of more than 15,000 aborted babies were found to have been incinerated, along with other “medical waste,” to heat and generate power for British hospitals.
Contact:
Hon. Christy Clark
Premier
250-387-1715
premier@gov.bc.ca
Hon. Terry Lake
Minister of Health
250 953-3547
hlth.minister@gov.bc.ca
Be careful people, on how you word things. I understand the hatred of the practice of abortion. I abhor it myself. However, there are repeatedly many hurtful bordering on overly self-righteous comments made here from time to time and you must also stop and think about those who have to live with the regret of an abortion, who have repented and received forgiveness from their Lord. Nobody is righteous, no not one.
I fail to see the problem here.
Lots of dead people get creamated every year.
Furthermore, after death, the soul is gone and the body is mostly a waste product after that.
Now disapproving of the abortion to begin with, I can see that. But disposal of the body in a cost efficient way is something that does not bother me.
Here’s why people have a problem with it.
You allow something like this to happen.. and eventually.. these SICKO’s will start encouraging even MORE abortions.. hell they’ll talk about how the state is able to use the dead bodies in campaign ads in 10 years..
This is sick.
Cancerous tissue?
To the state, we’re all copper-tops.
Life imitates art.
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