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[Rodney]

TAKE ACTION FRIDAY, JULY 17: URGENT CALL-IN DAY TO STOP GARIBALDI AT SQUAMISH SKI RESORT

On July 19, the public comment period ends for the Garibaldi at Squamish (GAS) ski resort's Environmental Assessment certification application. The Environmental Assessment Office will then have 17 days to prepare a report for the provincial government, which will have 45 days to accept or reject the application.

WHAT YOU CAN DO - TWO SIMPLE PHONE CALLS TO SAVE SQUAMISH:

*FRIDAY, please call MLA Joan McIntyre to urge her to oppose the GAS resort. If you can't call, please send her an email. To contact MLA McIntyre:

Phone: 604 981-0045 (constituency); 250 953-4613 (office)
Email: joan.mcintyre.mla@leg.bc.ca

*FRUDAY, please call Minister for the Environment, the Honorable Barry Penner to urge him to reject the GAS resort. If you can't call, please send him an email. To contact the Minister:

Phone: 250-387-1187
Email: Barry.Penner@gov.bc.ca

TALKING POINTS TO USE WHEN CALLING MLA MCINTYRE AND MINISTER PENNER:

A massive ski resort proposal near Squamish would threaten the quality of life for area residents, recreation opportunities, fisheries, wildlife, and the environment. The planned development, Garibaldi at Squamish (GAS), would cover an area roughly half the size of Squamish. Nearly 50 local businesses, conservationists, and recreation interests, including snowmobilers, dirt bikers, anglers, and rock climbers, oppose the GAS project. The development would:

*Include two golf courses, 25 ski lifts, 98 km of roads, hotels, and nearly 6,000 new homes, apartments, and condominiums

*Undermine Squamish's official community plan

*Hurt small businesses by drawing consumers away from downtown

*Put Squamish residents at risk because the current plan does not account for fire protection services, hospital beds, school seats, or public transit

*Jeopardize existing recreational use and curtail current access

*Encompass land that has been identified as prime habitat for endangered or at-risk species such as peregrine falcon, wolverine, and marbled murrelet. The GAS area also includes a threatened grizzly bear population unit that has been designated for recovery by the province.

*Put public at risk by pushing bears, cougars, and other predators further into commercial and residential areas

Thanks folks!

*Adversely impact Brohm Creek, one of the most productive salmon and steelhead streams in the province. The development calls for expansive water management, including sewage and storm water discharge, irrigation for golf courses and potable water, extractions of water for snowmaking, and as many as five dams.

[jimmywits]

E-mails  sent:

Dear Mr Penner
 

I am writing you today to implore you to use all your powers and influence to prevent this act of reckless stewardship from going forward. This region has had nothing but environmental turmoil taking place year after year, weather it be deliberate or accidental. I have lived and played in this region all of my life and love it dearly. I am sick and tired of watching the relentless environmental degradation, of this sector. The Idea of having another city the size of Whistler polluting the frail watershed in this area is criminal in my view. The traffic congestion presently, even with the revamped highway is often unacceptable, now they want to substantially increase it?

 After the chemical spill by B.C.Rail several years ago the cheakamus river was devastated. The extent of the fish kill was pervasive, a disaster to the ecosystem not to mention a once vibrant fishery. The one positive aspect to the ordeal was that Brohm Creek(an anomaly in it's ability to rear salmonoids, being a mountain stream) was spared. This project presents a serious threat to yet another ecosystem. There will be leaching of fertilizer and other chemical by-products into this vital stream, from this needless project. This blight along with a number of other invasive and parasitic discharges and extractions proposed, will kill this stream and it's precious life sustaining properties. Please do not sit by and allow this to happen. Money isn't everything, Mother Nature is!

                     Regards    James Miller