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‘Cops for Cancer’ Headed for Aldergrove
‘Mr. Burns’ to dog Metro over incineration By JEFF NAGEL Aldergrove Star
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With B.C. schools now back in operation the Cops for Cancer Tour de Valley will be able to make those important stops at schools to bring their message to students. Their first stop next Tuesday morning, Sept. 30, will be at Aldergrove’s Shortreed Elementary at 9 a.m. for a visit with the assembled students in the gymnasium. For more information about Cops for Cancer tours and how you can contribute to the cause, visit copsforcancerbc.ca.
Serious crash on Zero Avenue Aldergrove Star
A Surrey woman was airlifted to hospital after a single vehicle rollover accident on Friday afternoon. Investigators believe the woman suffered a medical emergency which caused the vehicle to get out of control. The woman’s Dodge Durango was apparently traveling at a high rate of speed
on a portion of Zero Avenue when it went off the road on the United States side, rolled over, sheared off a power pole and came to rest straddling the Canada/U.S. border. A witness at the scene said that portion of Zero Avenue had been closed for construction. The accident happened just after 1 p.m. and the road was shut down for about
three hours while Langley RCMP investigated the accident. The woman was rescued from the vehicle by the fire department and then transported to Royal Columbian Hospital by air ambulance. The B.C. Ambulance Service had to land in a field on the United States side of the border.
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Opponents of garbage incineration launched a fresh attack on Metro Vancouver’s waste-to-energy expansion plan Tuesday by unveiling a satirical “Mr. Burns” mascot. Kevin Grandia, a consultant fronting what he calls the Burn Free BC Coalition along with one other activist, said the aim is to pressure local politicians seeking election this fall to resist the Metro plan to build a costly new incinerator. The concept mirrors the use of a “Mr. Floatie” mascot in Victoria to shame area politicians into supporting a new treatment plant to end the pumping of raw sewage into the ocean. “This election, we, with Mr. Burns in tow, are going to make sure every voter knows about every municipal candidate who supports this plan,” said Grandia, who unveiled the smokestack-styled mascot outside Metro’s annual Zero Waste Conference in Vancouver. And while much discussion inside the conference room focused on innovative solutions to recycle or reduce waste before it reaches the consumer, the question of incineration was broached in a panel discussion. U.S. plastics recycling entrepreneur Michael Biddle said burning plastics ends its potential use as a resource, although he added waste-toenergy has a role because not everything can be recycled.
Another speaker cautioned against over-building incinerators. Metro officials insist they support recycling, reuse and reduction of waste at the design stage before recovering energy from unrecyclable waste instead of landfilling it. But Abbotsford Coun. Patricia Ross accused them of avoiding the topic of incineration at the conference and in municipal elections this fall. Metro last spring postponed plans to start public consultations on some prospective sites for a new waste-to-energy plant after Nanaimo council rejected one site at Duke Point. Metro has yet to identify other potential sites it has optioned that could be matched with waste-to-energy firms proposing to use various technologies. “It’s the huge elephant in the room,” Ross said. “They’ve gone quiet until after the election because they don’t want it to be an election issue. After that’s over things will happen very, very quickly and it will be too late for people to do anything about it.” Opponents of a new waste-to-energy plant for Metro cite varying concerns, including worse air pollution in the Fraser Valley, high costs and the undermining of greener recycling alternatives. Metro insists its strategy is to increase recycling from an average of 58 per cent to 80 per cent by 2020, but it SEE: Page 3
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