NAGOYA — The city of Nagoya and Aichi Prefecture have jointly decided to scrap their plan to convert the environmentally sensitive Fujimae tidelands into a landfill, informed sources said Monday.
Despite worldwide fame as a home to migratory birds, the prefecture and the Nagoya Municipal Government seemed to have set their sites on using the 89-hectare tidelands to store local waste.
But fierce opposition from local residents and environmentalists forced the local governments last month to launch a search for alternative sites, including man-made Port Island off Nagoya port, the sources said.