New environmental issues raised over Nanaimo Rock City apartment-building project

The planned construction of a six-storey apartment building at 3400 Barrington Rd. adjacent to a wetland is being questioned after new environmental information has come to light.
Neighbour Tamara Brown, who addressed Nanaimo city council at its meeting on Monday, July 6, said the project, located near Rock City Road, would remove approximately 437 trees and involve the extensive blasting of bedrock beside, what is now believed to be, an exceptionally rare peatland ecosystem.
She said that since