Nanaimo's Duke Point is a potential site for a waste-to-energy incinerator, which would burn 370,000 tonnes of Metro Vancouver’s garbage per year. It’s unfair to expose residents of the city and regional district to toxic residue from Vancouver’s waste stream when the Regional District of Nanaimo has worked to manage our own solid waste in an environmentally responsible manner. - See more at: http://www.sierraclub.bc.ca/media-centre/press-releases/no-time-to-waste-for-formal-opposition-to-metro-vancouver2019s-incinerator#sthash.YyOpjbyP.dpuf

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