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[wildsight]

News: Jumbo Ski Resort Carves New Legal Tracks

http://thetyee.ca/News/2009/10/26/Jumbo … ign=261009

Politicians in this region leave a lot on the table…

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Why is Wildsight so hypocritical… you want Jumbo to be a local decision… But when it comes to the Flathead you want it a federal or even a world decision. You guys are unbelievable. No wonder you’ve lost so much support in the valley. Total hypocrites …

[slacklocal]

you seem to be misinformed on the Flathead issue mikes

My understanding is that wildsight is supporting a local decision on the Flathead. They want to see a feasibility study (which would consult with locals about if the park is feasible)

This approach is supported locally by the City of Fernie, the Regional District of the East Kootenay and the Ktunaxa.

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You call UNESCO a local decision? And you call Parks Canada a local decision? The "local decision" has already been made by our local MLA thanks.

SAY NO TO THE FLATHEAD PARK

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By the way. UNESCO was brought here by Wildsight. And one of Wildsights memebers testified to UNESCO that the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park (FLATHEAD INCLUDED) needed to be designated a World Heritage Site in Danger durring a June 27 2009 session. When evaluating the imminent destruction of the Flathead due to snowmobile use and timber harvesting…. with whom did UNESCO consult? No body voted for these UNESCO memebers. UNESCO’s leadership has what directive or objectives? Who selects them, and what are the criteria? If governments are elected, and their bureaucrats can be trusted to choose UNESCO. Then why shouldn’t the government of BC select trustees to decide the future of Jumbo?

[slacklocal]

UNESCO doesn’t have any say in anything. They can make reccomendations, but they aren’t binding.

Its up to the BC government to decide the fate of the Flathead… and without the pressures from Wildsight and UNESCO they would be mining there right now.

And I don’t believe that Wildsight said anything about snowmobiling and logging to UNESCO, they only raised concerns about mining.

You know you anti park folks sure water down your arguments by spreading mistruths. If you want to be taken seriously you should stick to the facts.

[mikes]

There will be no logging or snowmobiling if there is a Flathead park…. And there is no mining there now… not because of Wildsight…but because Bill Bennett heard the locals voices … and knows we don’t want a mine in the Flathead… Thank god we live in a sovern nation where we don’t have to listen to Corupt Globalists (UNESCO) and foreign funded Extreme Environmentalists (Wildsight,Sierra Club)

[young_local]

"slacklocal" wrote:

without the pressures from Wildsight and UNESCO they would be mining there right now.

Come on now, you know that is untrue. You can’t possibly believe that without Wildsight and UNESCO there would be mining there right now.. Wildsight was NOT around twenty years ago, when the older generations of LOCALS were out enjoying the Flathead, like many of us younger guys like to do now.. Guess what? There was the same amount of methane/oil/gas/coal there then, and there wasn’t mining.. What did Wildsight change? Wildsight did some good things, yes, it brought some awareness to this part of the country/province that maybe the big shots in Vancouver would never have found out about.. But does everything have to be so uber-slanted "tree-hugging" (for lack of a better word) b.s that turns the average every day guy into an evil, o-zone killing, nature-hating bastard? Enough with the fear mongering. Why doesn’t Wildsight attack Tembec Inc. for the logging the are doing/have done in that valley?

By the way, I am still on the fence about the flathead park issue.. as I grew up hunting, fishing, camping, and enjoying the flathead. I would hate to see it turn into a park, as it would bring more tourists and more development then any of you think (take a look at glacier, the road to the sun, etc… these places never used to be paved, with rest stops every 5km which include permanent bathroom facilites and many other concrete buildings and other un-natural objects.) As of right now, the Flathead is more natural then it would be if it were turned into a park… Why can’t we have no park & no mines? Bill has kept that so far, lets have some faith in him.

[slacklocal]

actually wildsight has been around for over 20 years… its previous incarnation was the East Kootenay Environmental Society.

individuals that started wildsight have been fighting off oil and gas in the Flathead for even longer than that

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