'Save our park,' was the rallying cry of protesters opposing the wetlands location of the proposed green waste facility.
At a rally made up of various grassroots activists, Burnaby residents came out to Fraser Foreshore Park on Sunday to oppose the city's plan to remove 21 acres from the park to build a green recycling and organic waste processing facility. Cynthia Chan, organizer of the rally, expressed the importance of the wetland habitat at the park and celebrated the activists' efforts.
"We don't want a waste facility being built here," Koh said. "We don't want any dedicated parkland being undedicated. Us requiring to submit 16,250 votes in order to do that? That's quite ridiculous." Another Burnaby resident, Christine Barham, told the crowd to be "cautiously optimistic" about the special meeting to be held, noting the parkland was dedicated by voters in perpetuity.
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