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"After dealing with a rejected rezoning application from the Islands Trust, the Salt Spring Coffee Company is now facing opposition from a neighbour to its Richmond roasting operation." "Darryl Segal, president of a company called International Cosmeticare, said some of his employees have threatened to resign because they feel ill while at work and that heart palpitations suffered by his father have become worse due to roasting activities." "SSCC’s Richmond operation is a temporary one, he stressed, as the company continues to seek a permanent location with a significant “green” facility like the one it had envisioned for Salt Spring."
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"To Mickey and Ross McLeod of Salt Spring Coffee Company, who hung in there for two years courting the Islands Trust for approval to forge ahead on the world’s first LEED-certified coffee roasting facility. After spending more than $150,000 on studies and reports in a vain attempt to allay the fears of neighbours, to convince the unconvincable, their application for rezoning was denied. Optimists to the end, they have decided to set their jaws and try to grind it out here on Camelot. To the coffee co. went the Chamber of Commerce Green Business of the Year award and my undying admiration."
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"Founded in 1996 by Mr. McLeod and Robbyn Scott, his wife, Salt Spring Coffee began as a single cafe that offered islanders good, freshly roasted joe." "The company’s eco-credentials corresponded with an emerging West Coast ethos favouring all things 'green.' Organizations such as the David Suzuki Foundation and the Sierra Club endorsed its mission and its products."

"The Salt Spring Coffee Company, which markets its coffee as 'certified organic, fair-trade, shade-grown and carbon-neutral,' intends to build a facility at Ford Lake on the Fulford-Ganges Road that meets the LEED gold standard."