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‘Pacific ashtray’: Australian billionaire’s plan to ship and burn waste in Fiji condemned by villagers

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‘Pacific ashtray’: Australian billionaire’s plan to ship and burn waste in Fiji condemned by villagers
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After his project got rejected in Sydney, a rubbish disposal magnate now hopes to build a $630m port and waste incinerator near a tourist gateway cityAn Australian billionaire’s plan to burn rubbish for energy in Fiji amounts to “waste colonialism” and risks spoiling a “beach paradise”, villagers and the Pacific country’s UN ambassador have said.Traditional landowner Inoke Tora boarded a bus to the capital, Suva, on Tuesday with a petition from villagers opposing the $630m waste-to-energy incine

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