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- Australian billionaire Ian Malouf and Rob Cromb have submitted a $630 million waste-to-energy incinerator plan near Nadi, Fiji, for review.
- Villagers, chiefs and Fiji’s UN ambassador, backed by a petition of 3,005 people and 207 submissions, call the project “waste colonialism,” warning Vuda coast could become an ashtray.
- Experts Professor Ray Wills and former mayor Stephen Bali say the incinerator would raise shipping-waste emissions and that renewable alternatives would be cheaper.
