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SCRD Energy & Emissions Plan
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: News News
- Published: 03 March 2010 03 March 2010
Movie Night - "Trashed"
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: News News
- Published: 03 March 2010 03 March 2010
Trashed is an award-winning road trip through the afterlife of garbage and its implications for our biosphere. Director Bill Kirkos visited 10 states and Canada to make the documentary and interviewed passionate advocates who are working to reform the current model.
PH Landfill Decision Postponed
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: News News
- Published: 03 March 2010 03 March 2010
At the SCRD board meeting on Thursday, February 25, 2010, the decision to close the Pender Harbour landfill was put on hold until the next board meeting on March 11.
Recyling Depot Open House
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: News News
- Published: 17 February 2010 17 February 2010
Sechelt Nation responds to dumping on Band land
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: News News
- Published: 17 February 2010 17 February 2010
The Sechelt Nation has met with the RCMP and Direct Disposal owner Norm Bonin regarding his company's dumping of two loads of mixed waste on Band land on February 2. Chief Garry Feschuk stated that "it is upsetting that people would do something like this" when he spoke with Sustainable Coast.
Committee votes to close PH landfill
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: News News
- Published: 17 February 2010 17 February 2010
The SCRD Infrastructure Committee decided to close the Pender Harbour Landfill and replace it with a transfer station in a 4-3 vote. Voting against the closure was Area A director Eric Graham of Pender Harbour, Area B director Gary Nohr of Halfmoon Bay and Area F director Lee Turnbull of West Howe Sound.
Direct Disposal dumps waste on Sechelt Band land
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: News News
- Published: 02 February 2010 02 February 2010
Two trucks owned by Direct Disposal Corporation of Sechelt were observed dumping a mixed load of waste at the Tymax and Coastland Wood Industries green waste site on Sechelt Inlet Road in Sechelt. The property is on land owned by the Sechelt Band.
SCRD Not Required to Follow Public Wishes on Landfill, Says Shugar
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- Written by Administrator Administrator
- Category: News News
- Published: 02 February 2010 02 February 2010
When a speaker at the Jan. 19 meeting on the fate of the Pender landfill asked Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) Sustainable Services Manager Dion Whyte if there was one good thing he could say about keeping the landfill going, Whyte thought for a moment then said, "It would please a lot of people in this room."