It is a partnership that is going to help the environment and Ontario poor.
The Ontario Diary Council has teamed up with Ontario bio gas developer StormFisher to convert non edible by products from the production of milk, cheese and yogurt into renewable energy.
Tom Kane is the President of the Ontario Dairy Council and says a portion of the money raised from the sale of this renewable energy will to to the Ontario Association of Food Banks.
He says these organic products can be fed into StormFisher’s anaerobic digesters which decompose the matter to create electricity, natural gas and heat.
Kane says under Ontario’s new nutriment management act, cheese producers can no longer dispose of whey by spreading it on agricultural land.
He says this partnership now offers the producers a way of disposing of this unwanted material which will help produce energy, which in turn will help fund food banks.
Kane says the Dairy Council andits fluid milk members have long support food banks by donating up to one million litres of milk a year to food banks.
He says giving the food banks a portion of the proceeds of the sale of this renewable energy resource is another way to can continue to help the poor.
