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Originally Posted by officedweller
Yeah, I could see them reviving plans for a new incinerator - it's just the environmentalists and the Fraser Valley residents that object.
The Burnaby incinerator has been operating for many years without many issues.
The main problem with sinking a lot of money into a new large facility is that the recycling initiatives have reduced the amount of garbage actually available for burning.
But I don't see why they can't build a smaller scalable incinerator facility that can be expanded if needed.
WRT the Vancouver Landfill in Burns Bog, the City of Vancouver owns that and it's unlikely that it would pay higher tipping fees to dispose of CoV garbage at a regional garbage incinerator, even if it is better from an environmental perspective than landfilling in Burns Bog - at least until Burns Bog fills up.
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Vancouver Landfill has upgrade parts of its infrastructure to allow incinerator. They already sell methane.
As for the existing incinerator is it only Burnaby municipal or also commercial.
Cache creek is a private dump and owned by Wastech. Their contract with metro is expiring. So a new vendor has contract and the transfer site in Coquitlam will be moving is what i heard