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Thursday April 11, 2013
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dance competition up in the air
Wearing bicycle-racing costumes, members of White rock’s spiral dance co. Ltd. performed this group jazz routine (age 16) at the 47th-annual surrey Festival of dance at the surrey Arts centre last saturday. the month-long competition continues. For more dance photos, see page 49.
Search on for new incinerator site Surrey’s City Centre in the running, as hosting regional waste site offers tempting payoffs for cities
by Jeff Nagel Metro VANcoUVer will soon launch its search for sites
for a new waste-to-energy plant that is sure to be controversial in whatever neighbourhoods are picked and potentially lucrative for the successful host city. Starting in July, land owners interested in hosting a new garbage incinerator will be asked to step forward and advise the regional district of their interest. Metro will short-list up to five sites that it would secure with options to purchase that could see the
regional district pay out up to $7.5 million to the land owners as compensation while they wait to see if their site is chosen. Meanwhile, some of the 19 companies proposing various technologies to build the new plant may have secured sites of their own that would also be added to the list. All proposed sites would be made public by the end of this year ahead of public consultations to gauge community support. Host sites don’t necessarily have to be within Metro Vancouver. Sites further away, such as on Vancouver
Island, would have one advantage: defusing opposition from Fraser Valley residents who fear more air pollution wafting their way. And there could be sites in the Fraser Valley itself – one of the proponents is named Chilliwack Bioenergy Group and owned by local businessmen there. But other factors will also be in play, according to Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan, vice-chair of Metro’s zero waste committee.
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