Manitoba looking into adding GPS tracking, other monitoring to garbage trucks, landfills
The Manitoba government says it’s planning to issue a request for proposals to look into measures that include adding GPS tracking to garbage trucks in the province.
The update comes in response to recommendations from a report that looked into the feasibility of searching a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains for two Indigenous women murdered by a serial killer — a search that’s expected to begin next month.
The request for proposals will seek a “qualified service provider with comprehensive knowledge of the waste management industry and technology solutions” that can review the recommendations made in a feasibility study on searching the Prairie Green landfill for the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran.
Those recommendations included adding video surveillance at the entrances and exits of landfills and equipping garbage trucks with GPS technology to track their location and rear-facing cameras to let operators see what’s being unloaded, the province said in a news release Wednesday.
The process will include working with the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and the Association of Manitoba Municipalities. Following that, the consultant hired for the job would “identify appropriate, effective technological and operational opportunities for government’s consideration to enhance the monitoring of materials brought to landfills,” the release said.
The process is expected to be finished by summer 2025, the release said.
The search for the remains of Harris, 39, and Myran, 26, is scheduled to begin in October, Premier Wab Kinew said last week. The women’s remains are believed to have been taken to the landfill north of Winnipeg after the women were murdered by Jeremy Skibicki in the spring of 2022.
Skibicki, 37, was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder on July 11 in the killings of three First Nations women — Harris, 39, Myran, 26, and Rebecca Contois, 24 — as well as an unidentified woman who has been given the name Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, or Buffalo Woman, by community leaders.
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