Burnaby city council sends organics plant proposed for park back to drawing board
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Monday's vote means the city will now look for an alternate location for the controversial Green Recycling and Organics plant, rather than the proposed Fraser Foreshore Park.
Burnaby, B.C., city council has officially voted to send a controversial plan to build an organics recycling plant in a park near the Fraser River back to the drawing board.
Councillors voted unanimously Monday to scrap an initiative known as an Alternative Approval Process (AAP), essentially a reverse referendum, that would have moved the Green Recycling and Organics project proposal forward.
The decision was met by cheers from a packed council chamber.
“I’m pleased that city council spoke with one voice in recognition that the public does not support the use of parkland for this project,” Mayor Mike Hurley said in a media release.
“Despite the fact GRO could deliver significant carbon reductions and allow Burnaby to process its own organic materials, the public did not support the trade-offs required to achieve it.”
Hurley said the city would now look at alternative locations for the project and other initiatives to meet its climate goals.
The proposed facility would have taken 8.5 hectares from the Fraser Foreshore Park, and be able to process about 150,000 tonnes of green recycling and organics annually, about a third of it coming from Burnaby.
Hurley had touted the plant as a key way for the city to meet its goal of being carbon neutral by 2050, partly by using gas it produced to fuel vehicles, rather than diesel.
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