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A motion about industrial land use divided Nanaimo city council in a narrow 5-4 vote Monday night. On the meeting agenda the motion from Councillor Paul Manly asked staff to prepare a zoning amendment that would have prevented six different industrial scale uses, including certain garbage incineration facilities, chemical plants, petroleum refineries, and Liquefied Natural Gas export facilities.
The motion council ended up debating instead asked staff to prepare a report with options on a zoning amendment to exclude emissions intense heavy industries, listing several examples, which would instead require site specific zoning. That motion narrowly passed 5-4.
Voting in favour were councillors Paul Manly, Tyler Brown, Ben Gheselbrecht, Erin Hemmens, and Hilary Eastmure. Voting against were councillors Janice Perrino Ian Thorpe, Sheryl Armstrong and Mayor Leonard Krog.
Midcoast Morning spoke with Manly about his motion, as well as Harmac CEO Paul Sadler, who said he felt his enterprise was directly targeted by it. You can watch the discussion around the motion from Monday’s council meeting HERE, beginning at 1:02:30.
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