Coquitlam quarry granted permission to expand

Coquitlam quarry granted permission to expand

photo supplied Renato Spano It’s a rocky road ahead near Pinecone Burke park. More than two-and-a-half years after it was first pitched, the province has approved Heidelberg Materials’ plan dig an extra 500,000 tonnes of rock out of a Coquitlam-area quarry. The international company based in Germany was formerly permitted to dig out 1,000,000 tonnes of quarried rock each year from the site between Pitt River and Pinecone Burke. However, the 15-y…