English
Afrikaans
Albanian
Arabic
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Basque
Belarusian
Bulgarian
Catalan
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Estonian
Filipino
Finnish
French
Galician
Georgian
German
Greek
Haitian Creole
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Latvian
Lithuanian
Macedonian
Malay
Maltese
Norwegian
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Vietnamese
Welsh
Yiddish- You are here:
-
Home
- Recent Articles
Categories
Articles
April 6, 2016
The Squamish Chief
Aquilini Investment Group pledges $75,000 to reopen the Garibaldi Park master plan
An update to the news article published on March 31: http://www.squamishchief.com/news/local-news/ubc-club-opposes-garibaldi-at-squamish-resort-1.2221463
The update includes comments attributed to Aquilini Investment Group:
[James] Chu said Garibaldi at Squamish also supports BC Parks revising the Garibaldi Park Master Plan. “This revision would involve extensive public...
Whistler Mountain At Buildout Map
This map is part of the Whistler Blackcomb Master Plan Update 2013.
Our purpose in publishing it is to show Phase 15, 16 and 17 development. At this time, the plan is not approved. We oppose any expansion of Whistler-Blackcomb until such time as the Singing Pass Trail access problem is resolved to the satisfaction of the Federation of Mountain Clubs of B.C. and the Alpine Club of Canada (Whistler section). We are calling on the Mountain Resorts...
April 5, 2016
Mountain Resorts Branch dictates terms of Singing Pass public access to the 2020 team
Summary of comments made by MRB to the organization Garibaldi Park 2020.
The Whistler master plan of 2013 (phase 15, 16, 17 expansion) has not been approved by Mountain Resorts Branch. They expect it will be in the coming months.
MRB will be presenting two options to the FMCBC and ACC Whistler at an April meeting neither of which is what is being asked for - restoration of public...
April 5, 2016
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/donor-lists-reveal-bc-liberals-greed-for-power/article29535533/
Journalist Gary Mason writes that Elections BC just released the donations from last year. Real estate developers including Francesco Aquilini, Garibaldi at Squamish resort proponent, were well represented in the almost $10 million the BC Liberals accumulated last year. He writes:
Francesco Aquilini donated more than $175,000 through...
April 1, 2016
George Heyman, M.L.A. (Vancouver-Fairview) meets with the 2020 team
The 2020 team met with George Heyman in his Vancouver constituency office to introduce themselves and discuss the issues raised on the 2020 web site and GAS petition. Mr. Heyman is the Environment and Sustainable Energy critic of the NDP opposition in the provincial legislature.
March 31, 2016
The Squamish Chief
http://www.squamishchief.com/news/local-news/ubc-club-opposes-garibaldi-at-squamish-resort-1.2221463
The FMCBC has submitted a letter Singing-Pass-Trail-Access-Letter-to-Norman-Lee-February-29-2016.pdf (and responded by Norman Lee Response Letter 2016) to the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations requesting improved public access to the Singing Pass Trail in Garibaldi Provincial Park. This follows another that was sent to 2015-09-09-LT-FLNR-Singing-Pass.pdf (and responded by 2015-10-13-Response-FLNRO-Singing-Pass.pdf) Land Officer Tori...
Old growth management areas in and around Brohm Ridge that are classified by B.C. as "legal".
Click Here for Gmap Rendering
{GPSCONTENT ["id": 22, "elevation": 1, "speed": 1, "hr": 1]}
Elections BC reported that Francesco Aquilini, the chief financial backer of the Garibaldi at Squamish Resort Proposal, has donated over $1,000,000 to the BC Liberals and Christy Clark since 2005. Are there implications to a political donation of this magnitude? We don't know. We don't know to what extent the B.C. cabinet or the premier can exert influence on say, the Environment Assessment Office, to approve an environmental assessment certificate for a project under...
March 30, 2016
News 1130 AM Radio
http://www.news1130.com/2016/03/30/group-plans-to-halt-garibaldi-resort/
News 1130 interviews the public face of the 2020 team after the GAS petition hit number 1 on REDDIT.
March 30, 2016
Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/party-with-the-premier-not-for-any-price/article29428208/
Journalist Gary Mason writes about perfectly legal campaign financing practices in B.C. and Ontario. What you might not have known, meetings with the premiers or even cabinet ministers can be arranged for large donors.
In B.C. "the names of the people who donate to the party are published annually" Mr Mason writes. "What we don’t know is who on...
Old growth management areas in and around Garibaldi Park that are classified by B.C. as "legal".
Click Here for Gmap Rendering
{GPSCONTENT ["id": 23, "elevation": 1, "speed": 1, "hr": 1]}
March 22, 2016
FOI requests submitted by 2020
2020 submitted Freedom of Information requests comprising:
Copies of the Heli-Skiing Park Use Permits/Agreements for Heli-Ski operations within Garibaldi Provincial Park.
Copy of all the documents, letters, emails sent to and/or received from Squamish First Nation, or any other first nation pertaining to or mentioning the Darling Lake Trail, Darling Lake or Darling Ridge.
Location - GPS coordinates - of all the mineral mountain goat licks...
The Historic Singing Pass Trail existed well before the Whistler Blackcomb Ski Resort. The battle to maintain access to this trail began almost 50 years ago in 1968. Some of those original documents are posted on this site (see the documents section).
After a major road slump in 1997 made the original access road impassable, access has yet to be restored. Despite several highly viable options being available, commercial and industrial interests have presented a myriad...
Stop Garibaldi at Squamish Poster for higher resolution version of the poster below
Brohm Ridge Custom Map for Garibaldi at Squamish Resort MapsWhat Is Garibaldi at Squamish? (The Article Below comes from http://savebrohm.org) (Website Defunct)
The Garibaldi at Squamish (GAS) proposal includes 22,500 bed units, (1,770 hotel units, 5,723 housing units) 24 ski lifts, 3 gondolas, 3 day lodge facilities, 500,000 square feet of commercial space, 100 km of new road, one large water storage...
The following is a detailed Overview Map of the Garibaldi at Squamish Ski Proposal (GAS) that includes the critical wildlife habitat that it is direct conflict with. Without drastic change to the proposal, the Deer and Mountain Goats will be displaced, and may likely die. Source: The website for the Garibaldi at Squamish Proposal.
Garibaldi at Squamish Boundary Map to view high resolution image
Garibaldi At Squamish project boundary:
Click Here for Gmap...
March 6, 2016
2020 contacts Jennie Aikman at BC Parks for the heli-sking permits for the Garibaldi Provincial Park (most importantly the Spearhead Range).
Garibaldi At Squamish project boundary.
Click Here for Gmap Rendering
{GPSCONTENT ["id": 24, "elevation": 1, "speed": 1, "hr": 1]}
The following is a detailed Overview Map of the Garibaldi at Squamish Ski Proposal (GAS) that includes the critical wildlife habitat that it is in direct conflict with. Without drastic change to the proposal, the Deer and Mountain Goats will be displaced, and may likely die. Source: The website for the Gariabldi at Squamish Proposal.
Click...
Garibaldi Park - A Basic Description from Wikipedia
Garibaldi Provincial Park, also called Garibaldi Park, is a wilderness park located in British Columbia, Canada, about 70 kilometres (43.5 mi) north of Vancouver. The park is located to the east of the Sea to Sky Highway between Squamish and Whistler and covers an area of over 1,950 square kilometres (753 sq mi). Garibaldi was designated as a provincial park in 1927, and...
It has long been recognised that logging roads in the Mamquam Valley have been one of the important access points for Pinecone-Burke Park. The proposed Darling Lake Hertitage Trail has the potential to serve as a major access point Pinecone-Burke Park.
The Singing Pass Trail Access Fiasco began in the late 1960's. In 1968, the civilian park founders demanded that the Government at the time ensure access to the Singing Pass Trail during a time when Gairblaid Lifts Ltd (Whistler Blackcomb) were undertaking their a major expansion. Almost 50 years later, access to the traditional trailhead has yet to be secured/restored despite the efforts of multiple organisations. B.C. Parks has been all-but silent in the face of this...
Historical Garibaldi Park Boundary Maps (courtesy of Rupert Merer):
Map Files:
Whistler 1966 Historic Boundary
Blackcomb 1966 Historic Boundary
WB Park Deletions in Context
1966 Whistler Boundary
1966 Blackcomb Boundary
Modern Map Showing Park Deletions since 1966:
Garibaldi Park 2020 proposes two additions to be made to Garibaldi Park at the time of the new master plan. These additions will serve to protect important Mountain Goat habitat. Furthermore, being that at least six Boundary Adjustments have deleted large amounts of land from Garibaldi Park, it is long overdue to begin replacing what has been lost/taken away.
Our proposed additions are as follows (internal links):
Brohm Ridge...
The following document from 1955 predates the creation of BC Parks and discusses the need for a separate agency to manage Garibaldi Park separate from the Ministry of Forests and Lands. This letter is significant in that it lays out the park founders's expectation for this new agency (which would become BC Parks). On Page 4, the founders discuss their hopes with regards to a trail network for Garibaldi Park. It is clear upon inspection of this document that the current BC...
The following are documents from 1915- 1925 from the park founders petitioning the BC Government for the creation of Garibaldi Park (over 40 years before the creation of BC Parks). Apparantly the words of the founders of Garibaldi Provincial Park in 1915 "...preserved unimpaired for the instruction and recreation of the people of Western Canada." have been long forgotten by the B.C. Parks and the B.C. Government. B.C. Park's current policy of restricting public access to the park...
Powered by CjBlog