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“While I agree that a facility is needed, I find the location of thi s proposed facility to be fraught with hazard.” - BC Liberal MLA for Map le Ridge-Pitt Meadows Doug Bing
ill g plant w n li c y c e r “The o:lo eart of St h e h t in be l be and it wil r territory se to the Fra e s lo c o o t able unaccept River. It’s poses a because it iver and the r danger to hief n.” - Grand C o lm a s e h o t r of the Sto:l ie n n e P ce n Clare l Tribal Counci “The proposed site is simply too close to the river.” - World Rivers Day founder Mark Angelo
“Wild salmon are at risk from hazardous spills of PCBs, mercury, and other contaminants, and placing these toxins next to Canada’s greatest salmon river is fraught with peril.” - Watershed Watch Salmon Society executive director Craig Orr “For gosh sakes, not on the banks of the Fraser River.” - Joe Foy, national campaign director for the Wilderness Committee “This is just not the location.” - B.C. Federation of Drift Fishers president Rod Clapton
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List of those opposed to Aevitas waste recycling plant grows BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com
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hilliwack Mayor Sharon Gaetz and all six city councillors managed to shut out the growing din of opposition to hazardous waste recycling on the shores of the Fraser River on Tuesday. Approximately 30 people attended the afternoon portion of Tuesday’s meeting where a rezoning bylaw to allow for the facility was unanimously given fourth reading—essentially a legislative formality—by council. Opposition to the location—between 100 and 200 metres away from the Fraser River on a Cannor Road property in the Cattermole Lands—has
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come from more than 20 environmental, sports fishing and First Nations organizations as well as from MLAs, both BC Liberal and NDP. Ontario-based Aevitas Inc. asked council to rezone the property from heavy industrial to special industrial to allow for the plant that, each month, will recycle 5,000 litres of transformer oil
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containing PCBs and 500,000 lamps containing mercury. A day before the final approval, BC Liberal MLA for Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows, Doug Bing, sent a letter to Gaetz in which he said he found the See AEVITAS, Page 23
Paying the price for crime It’s not only jail time criminals have to fear BY CORNELIA NAYLOR cnaylor@chilliwacktimes.com
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hilliwack RCMP are hailing the effectiveness of civil forfeiture as a crime-fighting tool just as B.C.’s civil forfeiture program has come under fire. L a s t m o nt h, l o c a l Mo u nt i e s announced the seizure and sale of a $480,000 Majuba Hill Road property by the province’s Civil Forfeiture Office (CFO) after allegations it had been used as a marijuana grow operation for some time before EB IRST Aug. 10, 2011. “Civil forfeitures First reported on are a very effective chilliwacktimes.com tool to combat criminal activity,” RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Len vanNieuwenhuizen stated in a Jan. 16 press release. “It is a tool that our Crime Reduction Unit will make more use of when criminal forfeiture is not available.” According to documents filed in B.C. Supreme Court, police searched 41848 Majuba Hill Rd., owned by then Abbotsford resident Randell Konschuh, in 2011. They found Konschuh’s brother, Brent, along with 1,070 pot plants “in various stages of growth,” 2.5 kilograms of drying bud, a small quantity of hash, a hydro bypass other other marijuana growing and harvesting equipment. The brothers were charged with theft of electricity, production of a controlled substance and possession
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