Article in The Province newspaper by Daphne Bramham that highlights the difficulty in Whistler in confronting climate change. On the one hand, it wants compensation from energy producers for climate impacts. On the other hand, its main industry—tourism, is a huge greenhouse gas emitter due to airline travel. There is currently no carbon tax on aviation fuel except point to point within British Columbia. One estimate puts Whistler Blackcomb's annual carbon footprint at equivalent to 4,300 gasoline trucks, primarily due to airline travel for its guests.

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"Like it or not, they're in a resort municipality whose success or failure depends on outsiders."

The tone-deafness and hypocrisy of Whistler politicians is almost as breathtaking as the mountain scenery and the ski resort’s 1,530-metre vertical drop.

Little more than a year ago, former mayor Nancy Wilhelm-Morden stirred up trouble with her comments about day-trippers from Vancouver adding nothing but garbage to the mountain culture. Tourism Whistler CEO Barrett Fisher chimed in that the town’s focus should be on attracting the “right guests.”

But that’s nothing. Mayor Jack Crompton has now sparked a boycott of the resort and inflamed an already testy and aggrieved relationship between Alberta and British Columbia.

Full Article:  https://theprovince.com/opinion/columnists/daphne-bramham-whistler-politicians-intent-on-biting-the-hands-that-feed-them/wcm/3e7da0a1-f555-412f-a36f-752065be9318?fbclid=IwAR3u8A69quwqnnAEQy4BOahj5TS3kWRbXLGuuo8lX4IqojhwdizrX6f-_c4#comments