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Village of Gold River Creates YouTube Video in Bid for Energy-From-Waste Plant

Posted on | August 10, 2010 | No Comments

Residents of the Vancouver Island community of Gold River have put their overwhelming support for a proposed energy-from-waste facility into a video on YouTube. 

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The video, along with a Letter of Support signed by 318 village residents over a three-day period last week, requests that the Board of Metro Vancouver and BC’s Minister of Environment, Barry Penner, allow Covanta Energy and Green Island Energy to put forward a proposal for an energy-from-waste plant in Gold River to take waste from Metro Vancouver and other BC communities.

The proposed project would be built on the site of a former pulp mill, which closed 11 years ago and resulted in the loss of over 400 jobs.  The Village of Gold River, which has supported the construction of a waste-to-energy facility since it was first proposed in 2005, took the step of creating a video to show Metro Vancouver leaders, Minister Penner and all British Columbians that the community sees the project as a sustainable and economically viable solution to the province’s solid waste challenges.

“Gold River is a progressive community.  With this project, we have the opportunity to be a leader in renewable energy and to help create a more sustainable way to deal with unrecyclable waste in our province, ” says Mayor Craig Anderson.  “The energy-from-waste facility will not only position Gold River as a front-runner in the creation of a clean and renewable energy, it will also bring much needed investment and jobs back to our community.”

Mayor Anderson and Chief Mike Maquinna of the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation have requested a meeting with Minister of Environment, Barry Penner, in order to personally deliver the signed Letter of Support and video on behalf of the Gold River community.

“We are hopeful that our video will demonstrate to Metro Vancouver and the provincial government that Gold River is the right location for this state-of-the-art facility.  We have a site here with environmental approvals in place, an operator with experience building these facilities around the world, and a community that is ready to welcome the project,” says Anderson.

More information about the project can be found here.

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