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Garbage will be burned Burnaby’s mayor on board with waste incineration Janaya Fuller-Evans
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Metro Vancouver’s waste committee is moving forward with plans to build a garbage incinerator for the region. The decision came Wednesday, after extensive consultation with city politicians throughout the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley, as well as public hearings over the past few months. The issue of whether a landfill or incinerator would be best for the region has been a hot topic as Metro Vancouver conducted consultations about its integrated solid waste and resource management plan. Metro VancouDerek Corrigan ver’s initial manmayor agement plan draft favoured a waste-to-energy incinerator. The regional government has responded to worldwide criticism of the incinerators on its website. Mayor Derek Corrigan is in favour of the incineration plan, saying that those who are “anti-incineration are pro-landfill.” Scientific study identifies incinerators as environmentally and economically better waste disposal options, he said. The plan is being amended to include Garbage Page 8
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Digging the moment: Zacharie Parkyn, 17 months, and other youngsters wait for the digging to start at the groundbreaking for a new daycare at UniverCity. The building is set to be the first – and greenest – of its kind in the country.
Green building breaks ground Andrew Fleming staff reporter
Construction has begun on a new building on top of Burnaby Mountain that could be the first in Canada to meet the “Living Building Challenge” and achieve a new standard of environmental stewardship by being energy-independent, waterindependent, free of any toxic materials and completely local in its composition. There are currently three other projects in B.C. trying to meet the Cascadia Region
Green Building Council’s sustainability challenge – the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainabilty building at UBC, VanDusen Botanical Garden’s new $20-million upgrade and the Robert Bateman Art and Environmental Centre at Victoria’s Royal Roads University. But the SFU project, a new daycare for the UniverCity residential complex, is likely to be the first thanks to the simplicity of its design. “Ours is a 6,000-square-foot primarily wood and steel frame building, and the
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construction program is a lot simpler,” explained Dale Mikkelsen, manager of planning and sustainability for the project. “The goal for this building is to be what’s known as a net zero building, which basically means the building will create as many BTUs – which is a measurement of energy – as it will use in a year. What that means is the building will produce thermal energy through solar hot water from panels on the roof.” Mikkelsen, whose resumé includes Daycare Page 8
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