Council Creates Panel on Environmental Issues
The City Council has unanimously approved looking into ways the city can be more environmentally sensitive when purchasing materials for city projects and banning wood from tropical rain forests. It also supported creating a Sustainable Development Board that would oversee the projects.
The proposal by Councilman H. Delano Roosevelt is in response to environmentalists criticizing the city for buying hardwood from the Brazilian rain forest for its Queensway Bay waterfront project. The city has agreed to return 23% of the wood valued at $75,000. But it will keep the rest of the wood to build piers and walkways.
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