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Wednesday
August 4, 2010
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Burning trash
gets go-ahead
truck enters
Burnaby’s
waste-to-
energy
incinerator.
Metro
Vancouver
has approved Metro board leaves location options open
the idea of
building more by Kevin Diakiw the meeting she was disheartened.
such facilities “This is SE2 all over again,” she said. “This
as part of its BURNING GARBAGE has been approved by (decision) just leaves us hanging.”
regional trash Metro Vancouver. Her best hope was Vancouver, which
management Regional directors voted Friday to adopt was opposed to the idea of incineration
plan. a draft waste plan that includes incineration, altogether.
within or outside the Vancouver area. Vancouver Coun. Heather Deal attempted
FILE PHOTO / BLACK PRESS Incineration has been a bone of contention to have incineration removed from the
for Fraser Valley residents and politicians possible treatments of waste and offered an
who say it will damage the sensitive airshed. amendment that the definition of waste-
Metro chair and Delta Mayor Lois Jackson to-energy include all conversion methods
said the plan was “collaboration of many, including gasification, but excluding incin-
many years work. Not only people from eration and landfilling.
around this table, but also from the past, are “We don’t believe in adding more land-
going to be interested in how we deal with fills,” Deal said.
this today.”
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