Metro Vancouver has not been granted an environmental assessment certificate to develop a landfill at the Ashcroft Ranch property located 10 kilometres from Cache Creek, British Columbia.
Metro Vancouver has not been granted an environmental assessment certificate to develop a landfill at the Ashcroft Ranch property located 10 kilometres from Cache Creek, British Columbia.
The decision to not grant the assessment was made by Environment Minister Terry Lake and Community, Sport and Cultural Development Minister Ida Chong.
Factors for the decision included the Integrated Solid Waste Resource Management Plan not identifying the need for a large new landfill in the B.C. Interior, as well as a Metro Vancouver board decision in 2008 to move away from landfills and concentrate on waste reduction and composting.
The ministers also noted that the Ashcroft plan assumed the current Cache Creek landfill would close in 2008, and instead the current landfill received an environmental landfill certificate in 2010 which enables it to operate for another 25 years.
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