St. Michel Environmental Complex - La TOHU's St. Michel Environmental Complex in MontrealThe St. Michel Environmental Complex is one of Montreal's best examples of sustainable development. What used to be a limestone quarry and city dump is now 48 hectares (119 acres) of family-friendly green space with bikes paths, cross country ski trails and various outdoor sports facilities. This award-winning ecological centre is also a recycling sorting plant and a micro-power station sharing space with circus mecca La TOHU, Montreal's "circus city," home to the National Circus School and Cirque du Soleil headquarters. By 2020, what's remaining of the grounds' 192 hectares (474 acres) will also be turned into parkland roughly the size of Parc Mont-Royal.
St. Michel Environmental Complex: Turning Trash Into Treasure
In 1996, the complex began a project geared to turning one of North America's largest landfills and what used to be a major source of pollution in Montreal into a viable resource by converting the area's release of biogas -- a flammable combination of methane and carbon dioxide produced by bacterial degradation of organic matter -- into useable electricity. In the same year, Hydro-Québec signed a 25-year contract to buy the converted energy. In concert with its biogas conversion project, the St. Michel Environmental Complex also serves as a city recycling sorting centre and composting site. The resulting compost is given out, twice a year
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