Burnaby staff are proposing a 21-acre, $182-million green waste plant in Fraser Foreshore Park, which could generate revenue for the city.
Burnaby could be getting a $182-million organic waste processing facility in Fraser Foreshore Park, but it would come with a hefty environmental impact to park land.
The GROW facility would replace the current city requirement for processing green waste in a private composting facility in Delta, which staff say is one of “very few” green waste processing facilities in Metro Vancouver. The Fraser Foreshore Park location is “the only site option to meet the required criteria,” according to the report.
Staff plan to offset the environment impact with a preservation strategy that they say would be “the largest program package of environmental enhancement the city has ever undertaken,” preserving triple the amount of habitat as would be lost by building the facility. Staff said the larger facility would be “most economically feasible” as it could sell excess capacity and work with Fortis BC in a renewable natural gas off-take agreement.
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