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Incinerator vote today
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nents, she said. “Scientists and experts don’t agree on the impacts of waste-to-energy incineration, in part because the CHRISTINA TOTH technology to measure many of the associated pollutants doesn’t yet exist. CToth@abbotsfordtimes.com Its impact on health and the environbbotsford Coun. Patricia Ross ment can’t be reasonably assessed,” will be in the Metro Vancouver she wrote in The Vancouver Sun on meeting this morning when Thursday. board members vote on a proposed “We have a right to say ‘no more,’ waste management plan, which ” she added. The region’s business includes a controversial $470-million community, including Vancouver trash incinerator. Board of Trade chief economist Bernie The plan, recomMagnan, also criticizes the mended earlier this incinerator as an unknown month by Metro’s waste “Its impact on expense to taxpayers,. management committee health and the Most of the garbage, in a 7-5 vote, includes including Abbotsford’s, goals to recycle some environment can’t is currently trucked to a Cache Creek landfill, of the 500,000 tonnes be reasonably of garbage produced by which can be expanded Metro communities by assessed.” for another 25 years. 70 per cent. I f Me t r o Va n c o u v e r Ross, also the chair– Coun. Patricia Ross supports the incinerator, woman of the Fraser Valit must still be approved ley Regional District, has by the Ministry of Enviasked the Metro board to reject the ronment. While it’s unknown which incinerator component. Metro community would be willing to She notes that 10 years ago, Metro take an incinerator, Gold River on the leaders opposed the Sumas Energy 2 west coast of Vancouver Island wants power plant because of the negative the waste and the incinerator. impact it would have on air quality in the funnel-shaped Fraser Valley. ◗ For articles by Ross and Magnan, The incinerator has the added and for updates, see www.abbotsfordthreat of unknown chemical compo- times.com.
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Sarah Sangha tries to coax her groomed Holstein heifer Baroness towards the show ring on Thursday morning, as Agrifair kicks off its 100th anniversary. The annual Abbotsford country fair runs through Monday.
Botched killing claims girlfriend Langley woman shot to death on rural Abbotsford road RAFE ARNOTT RArnott@abbotsfordtimes.com
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Langley woman found shot to death in Abbotsford early Wednesday morning was likely not the intended victim in what appeared to be a drug-related assassination attempt, RCMP said. Police found Mandy Astin Johnson, 22, lying next to a teal, mid-90s Chevy Tahoe just after 3 a.m. Wednesday, Integrated Homicide Investigation Team spokesperson Cpl. Dale Carr said. It is Abbotsford’s third homicide of the year. The man police believe was the intended target, Johnson’s
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boyfriend, who is “very well known to police,” was located a short distance away. Carr said detectives would not be releasing any details about his identity. “This is a man who is a victim of an apparent murder or assassination on him, perhaps, and we’re working through that. “At this point he’s not charged with anything, there’s no reason for me to give out [his] personal details,” Carr said. Homicide detectives are investigating the possibility of his life still being in danger, Carr said. “We’re not going to say if we feel it is or not, but certainly it is one of the things investigators have to consider.” The shooting took place along a stretch of rural blacktop near the corner of Polar Avenue and Townline Road, in northwest Abbotsford.
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Abbotsford police officers at the scene of a fatal shooting near Polar Avenue and Townline Road Wednesday morning.
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