Plasco's waste-to-energy plant will be run by fewer employees over the next 13 weeks as the company temporarily lays off 57 workers in Ottawa. (CBC)Plasco Energy Group announced Monday that it will temporarily lay off some of its Ottawa employees in an effort to save money.
The company's chief executive officer, Rod Bryden, said Monday that 57 people who work at Ottawa's waste-to-energy facility on Trim Road will be out of work for 13 weeks.
"Project money is very difficult to come by and the market is somewhat chaotic and very difficult to predict," Bryden said.
"That's exactly why governments all over the world have been borrowing money, themselves, on government credit and putting it back out into funding infrastructure projects."
Plasco currently has a contract with the City of Ottawa to convert the city's waste into energy through a gasification process.
The company soon hopes to build a new facility in Alberta, Bryden said.
He said he hopes government infrastructure funding would help keep projects such as Plasco's moving in Canada and in other countries.
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