Plan to search landfill for women's remains moves ahead | Premier Wab Kinew speaks to reporters

WARNING: This story contains distressing details.

The Manitoba government has cleared one more hurdle in the push to search a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two victims of an admitted serial killer.

The province's environmental approvals branch has given the green light to alter Waste Connections of Canada's Environmental Act licence to allow a search of the Prairie Green landfill.

That licence alteration was one of the requirements for a search to move forward listed in a feasibility study conducted about the search of the landfill just outside of Winnipeg.

In a letter to a manager at Waste Connections obtained by CBC News, the province says it's approving the needed change as the company seeks "to begin a humanitarian search activity within the landfill."

The letter says the scope of the work will include:

Excavating materials from part of the landfill.
Developing and running a search facility.
Hauling the landfill materials to the search site.
Returning them to the active part of the dump once the materials have been searched.

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