Metro Vancouver to look at burning region’s garbage

Story in yesterday’s Vancouver Sun:

Metro Vancouver to look at burning region’s garbage – though maybe not locally.

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Energy from Waste in Gold River: BC's Renewable Energy Future is Here

via Jerry West:

Residents of the Vancouver Island community of Gold River have put their overwhelming support behind a proposed energy-from-waste facility that would turn unrecyclable garbage from Metro Vancouver and other B.C. communities into 100 megawatts of renewable energy.

The proposed project by Covanta Energy and Green Island Energy would

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Gold River Realty Ltd Joins the Century 21® System

GOLD RIVER —GOLD RIVER REALTY LTD is now part of the CENTURY 21 System.  Beginning immediately, your locally owned and operated real estate office will now be known as CENTURY 21 Gold River Realty.

JANET SCOTLAND and BRIAN DICKSON, owners of Gold River Realty Ltd, are very excited to be part of the

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Letter of Support for the proposed Gold River Energy-from–Waste Project

via Gold River Village Council:

In the next few months, BC’s Minister of Environment will make a decision that will affect whether or not the proposed Gold River Energy-from–Waste Project can be built.

You have an opportunity to send a message to the Minister.

The Village of Gold River

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Open House – Gold River Energy-from-Waste Project

Residents of the Village of Gold River and Strathcona Regional District Electoral Area ‘A’ are invited to an Open House on the Gold River Energy-from-Waste (EfW) Project.

Wednesday, July 21st 2010 at 6:00pm at the Community Centre

Covanta Energy Corporation (Covanta) and Green Island Energy Ltd. (GIE) are proposing to develop a thermal

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Gold River project is the “common-sense solution”

via Jerry West

Coalition of B.C. Building Trade Unions News Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

10 pm Wed. July 14, 2010

Four construction union leaders tell Metro Vancouver Board why the Gold River project is the “common-sense solution” to Metro’s growing garbage problem.

Building a waste to energy plant in Gold

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Job Posting: Part-time Literacy Coordinator

For anyone who may be interested.  Please feel free to use the email link at the bottom of the post to forward on to others as well.

Contract position – approximately 50 hrs per month – $20 per hour.

Click the link below to download. (MS Word format)

LOC Posting

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Covanta fact sheet

As requested, please click the following link for the fact sheet that Mayor Craig Anderson spoke about in his comment on the Covanta/GIE Energy News post:

Click here to view Covanta brochure

You will need Adobe Reader to open the brochure, if you do not have Adobe you can go here

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Garbage into Gold

Thought I would share this video for those interested – it appeared on A Channel news on May 7th, 2010:

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Times Colonist story – May 5/10

Another FYI for those of you following this issue:

American firm wants to build trash incinerator for Vancouver on the Island

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