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Mighty Hiker
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Vancouver, B.C.
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Well, let's hope that the government, in its death throes, doesn't go and do something foolish, at Jumbo or Squamish or both.
And hey, I agree that both processes are flawed. We've gone over the Squamish situation chapter and verse. We can disagree about the relative degrees of flawedness/flawdom as between the two, but little matter.
Looking at it another way, you want to defeat the Jumbo proposal due to flawed process, and I want to defeat the Squamish proposal on the same basis. Shouldn't we work together? After all, if the government is encouraged to think that it can disregard its own rules, we all lose.
Maybe there'll be more news this week.
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mountainlion
Trad climber
California
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Nov 20, 2012 - 07:04pm PT
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How long before the people of THE WORLD stand up to this small group of elite capitalists?
They are few and we are many!
The problem is to many of us whine "oh I thought this was a Sharma thread but it is just politics"
F*#k that this is our world!
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grumpyskitech
Trad climber
Rossland BC
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Jun 21, 2016 - 03:21pm PT
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Jumbo Wild....so says the man that has never been there...
How many people posting here have actually been to the area? Either up Glacier Creek from the west or Toby Creek from the east? If you have traveled these areas areas you'd know this is not "pristine". Very obvious the impacts of mining and development.
Logged, no timber pigged, in the 80's. Where was the outrage then? The original location for the proposed lodge sat where a sawmill one was....
hamie- you do know that the NDP under Harcourt were the one who granted approval in the 90's.
As for cutting the Purcells in half and destroying griz habitat. What bullsh*t. Get a f*cking map.
My major problem with all this horsesh*t surrounding Jumbo is the heinous stuff existing resort owners in BC are doing with government approval while you all have a pissing match. Just watched 120,000 cubic meters (roughly 3000(!) truckloads) of wood removed from our watershed so we could expand our resort. Not a word from any environmental group. No compliance with forest practices, no regard for forest health, straight up 70's style timber pig show. No engineering, no hydrology study, left a sick forest that is nothing but a fire hazard, or case study in windthrow. Didn't even make decent f*cking skiing!!
You may wish to examine you own impact on the planet. All the sh*t climbers use are petroleum products. Do you ride a unicorn to the crags?
Funny how you support companies like Patagucci that use sweat shop labour to provide their yuppie customers with overpriced fleece. How much of the sh*t do you use to recreate comes from China. You give a f*ck about Jumbo but f*ck your fellow human beings, eh? Who cares if Asian kids are chained to benches making $2 a day.
F*ck you.
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overwatch
climber
Arizona
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Jun 21, 2016 - 04:07pm PT
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Hey grumpysquidwretch get some medication
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Timmc
climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 21, 2016 - 06:56pm PT
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Nice troll from Trail.
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Timmc
climber
BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 21, 2016 - 07:29pm PT
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That will be interesting to see what happens in Valemont for sure.
The community is much more supportive of this project.
Same guy, Oberti, is pushing this.
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Aug 17, 2016 - 01:03pm PT
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"Valemount Glacier Destinations Ltd. received its Master Plan approval today from the British Columbia government."
http://valemountglaciers.com/master-plan-approved/
This is for development of a major resort, near Valemount, BC, with skiing below Mount Pierre Eliot Trudeau and some glaciated terrain below Mount Arthur Meighan. If fully built, it'll have 6700' vertical, the largest in N America.
https://goo.gl/maps/jPufPsHiAy12
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