'We have looked at every option. We have sweated over this; we have had sleepless nights over this,' Mayor Mike Hurley said on the organic waste processing plant proposed for sensitive wetlands at Fraser Foreshore Park.
Burnaby has been facing a significant amount of pushback on a proposal to carve out 21 acres of wetlands to build a green recycling organic waste facility.
We’re all going to feel a little uncomfortable, or a lot uncomfortable with some of these moves. However, to meet our climate change targets, these moves have to be made. It’s not easy to find parcels of land in Burnaby. And if we could find a parcel of land to purchase for this that would be suitable for this type of facility, we would do that. Unfortunately, that land is very, very hard to find.
We haven’t discussed this with Metro Vancouver at all. Our first and foremost is to take care of our own organics. That’s the most important thing to us, and we can do that in the most friendly way to our environment, instead of trucking it – who knows where in the province – with diesel trucks. That’s the number one thing. We haven’t sat down and had that discussion with Metro Van yet about what they might contribute, but first and foremost we’re responsible to look after our organics.
This is not at all about anything financial for us. This is about doing the right thing: looking after our organics and attacking, in the right way, on climate change. Our community has demanded that we declare a climate change emergency. We have to treat this like an emergency. We have got six years between now and getting … our emissions down. This is an emergency. So it’s going to take big moves.
The city’s environmental strategy states over and over again that wants to “protect and enhance habitat on public and private lands,” and it wants to “encourage development that respects and reduces the impact to our ecosystems and wildlife.” This seems contrary to that. One writer says that this area was previously enhanced as a salmonid habitat. So … that habitat will be destroyed and supposedly compensated with other habitat restoration. Isn’t that kind of defeating the purpose of habitat restoration in the first place?
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