The project, being developed by Aquilini Development and Northland Properties, applied to the provincial Environmental Assessment Office to extend the Environmental Assessment Cirtificate that was issued to Garibaldi at Squamish Inc. in January of 2016... See full article below: https://www.squamishchief.com/news/local-news/planning-continues-for-garibaldi-at-squamish-1.24189161?fbclid=IwAR0wm_e0ZDVe7XT6uK_vIufQHIj8abbfbt4mACULtiouHkqaBbm2iOKIj30 

Ungulate winter range on Brohm Ridge as shown overlapping the project boundaries for both the wilderness lodge and GaS. The article in Squamish Chief newspaper quotes one developer saying he hired a "registered professional biologist" to confirm the wilderness lodge is outside the ungulate winter range. The data set I used for the map to establish the lodge is inside the UWR comes from the provincial government. Those files are online here:...

Update on Garibaldi Squamish Resort According to their Winter 2019/2020 (https://www.garibaldiatsquamish.ca/news/2019/2/4/winter20192020newsletter?fbclid=IwAR22Y4ociivhiq0YF_Eihh5hWSab1qIM-jZjgsQxMskwdZJo8DvyNscFYBQ) It appears that Rod Macleod retired and has been replaced with Sabina FooFat as Project Director. They desire to apply to extend their EA (environmental assessment certificate) in the Spring to 2026. The proposed resort would occupy 2,760 hectares and is to be...

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." In this case, the above famous Upton Sinclair quote applies to Squamish resident Sabrina FooFat, who once opposed the Garibaldi At Squamish Resort, but now seems to have had a change of heart after being hired by the wealthy and powerful Aquilinis to manage the project after the recent retirement of Rod MacLeod. The more things change, the more the stay the...

Regarding a proposal by Don Vanderhorst to construct a wilderness lodge on Brohm Ridge inside mountain goat winter range. The lodge and resort proposal is entirely inside a designated ungulate winter range (UWR). The province establishes mountain goat winter ranges to provide high suitability habitat. Habitat attributes include snow interception, foraging opportunities, escape terrain, steep south and west-facing windswept ridges/slopes, conifer bluffs, shrub/grass communities, and...

According to Squamish Chief newspaper, April 12, 2019: The Squamish-area mountain range has captured the attention of prospective developers for decades. Now, a new application proposes a wilderness lodge at the top of Brohm Ridge, near man-made Natasha Lake. Don Worthington has owned a private cabin on Brohm Ridge since the 1970s, and has made similar applications to provide remote accommodations in the area before. Now, he's proposed a new three-storey lodge, which would house up to 18...

Rod Macleod, vice president of planning at Aquilini Group was interviewed by Sea to Sky Podcast in September. The interview is over 30 minutes long but there are a few takeaways that are of interest to the backcountry community. Macleod couldn't help taking a dig into Vail Resorts, owners of Whistler Blackcomb. According to Macleod, Vail doesn't care about the local market. They are interested in the international destination market, whereas Garibaldi at Squamish sees its biggest market as...

BackcountryBC met today with Rod Macleod, vice president of planning with the Aquilini Group down at Rogers Arena. We discussed our concerns with the Garibaldi at Squamish development.  https://www.squamishchief.com/real-estate/construction-could-begin-in-four-years-gas-1.23335649?fbclid=IwAR3Seto45mAQigxtS4E1dnh5pxXKcrnfIVWib84xtUP_sA-0rF9JIGMRsHo We strayed onto the topic of Singing Pass access. Mr. Macleod worked at Whistler Mountain when Peter Alder was the general manager. Mr....

Garibaldi at Squamish Resorts just never seems to go away, and it seems ever more likely that it will go ahead. There were a whole pile of shenanigans that we uncovered regarding this proposal a few years ago (see below) and we performed extensive mapping work on it. Reference:  https://backcountrybc.ca/…/backcount…/brohm-ridge-custom-map and https://backcountrybc.ca/…/brohm-ridge-garibaldi-at-squamis… Hopefully the Proponent and Government have come up with a better...

April 8, 2016 Aquilini Investment Group meets with the 2020 team to discuss the Garibaldi at Squamish Resort proposal The 2020 team discussed with the Aquilini Investment Group the proposed resort at Brohm Ridge and the pledge of $75,000 to reopen the Garibaldi Park master plan. The funds would be pledged to BC Parks for the planning process. AIG stated it has no intention until build out of seeking land from Garibaldi Provincial Park. Based on the length of time to receive approvals and...

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...

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...

March 31, 2016 The Squamish Chief http://www.squamishchief.com/news/local-news/ubc-club-opposes-garibaldi-at-squamish-resort-1.2221463

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...

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...

Garibaldi At Squamish Assessment Report GASAssessmentReportByEnvironmentalAssessmentOffice2010May17.pdf Prepared by the Environmental Assessment Office, May 17, 2010 and considered by the Minister of Environment, Honourable Mary Polak when approving the issuance of the Environmental Assessment Certificate in January 2016.  Selected quotes Page 70 The 2003 Application predicts a maximum of 240 hectares, or about 5%, of the high and moderately high winter...