A MOUNTAIN OF MEDICAL WASTE.

FEATURES WHEN PROTESTERS BEGAN driving combines down Main Street in Beiseker, mayor Warren Wise was shocked, if not a little frightened. WARREN WISE STEERED BEISEKER through a classic NIMBY problem: everyone generates medical waste, even if indirectly, but no one wants it in their backyard. The auditor general reported in 2015 - back when the province was still able to send most of its used syringes, gloves and blood-soaked gauzes to Wainwright's polluting incinerator - that AHS spent $3-million on medical waste disposal. "From a council standpoint", Wise tells me over a coffee in a café in Beiseker, the new incinerator "looked like a good idea. [Extracted from the article]