... well not yet, but VERY VERY CLOSE. Must I reiterate my reasons for disliking Gordo's Liberals?? Well, here's another reason why.
BC NDP Calls on Liberals to Cancel Proposal for Resorts in Provincial Parks
VANCOUVER (CP) -- The B.C. New Democrats are calling on the Environment Minister Barry Penner to withdraw a request for proposals to build private resorts in provincial parks.
Late last month, it was revealed that hotels with more than 100 rooms and helipads could be built in protected areas after a government call for private developers to build tourist accommodation in several provincial parks.
Defending the call, Penner said parks play a vital role in conservation but they are also for people.
NDP environment critic Shane Simpson, however, calls the move misguided. Simpson says it was done without any public consultation. The plan could see hotels built in a dozen parks, including Golden Ears near Vancouver, Wells Gray in the Cariboo, Silver Star near Vernon and Cape Scott on northern Vancouver Island.
"This policy will impact 12 parks this year, but that is only the thin end of the wedge," Simpson says in a news release. "Who knows how many of our 600 provincial parks n the future will be impacted. "The government has no moral authority to make this decision to sell one of B.C.'s public jewels to the highest bidder without talking to out citizens," he says. Simpson called on Penner and Premier Gordon Campbell to conduct a "substantive, meaningful and transparent conultation" with the public on the issue.
Penner said earlier the population is getting older and not everyone who stays in a park wants to sleep on the ground in a tent anymore.
The move is aimed at capitalizing on the expected tourism boom leading up to the 2010 Olympic Games
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Okay, so I see some merit and advantages to having accommodations like hotels and motels in some Provincial park areas, but resorts?? Helipads?? Why helipads??? A limited number of hotels and motels are good, because then more people would stay in the parks, and visit the parks... but a resort would bring in too many people... Those who want to live in a resort don't like bugs anyway, so why are they visiting a forest??
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Parks are for the rich and the Highest Bidders. They should open up Stanley park for hotels, resorts and condos too. I mean if there is a demand to make a buck on this why should the "lesser peoples" stop them. I mean they still have the Fraser River where they can swim and picnic. In fact lets cut down all the trees so we can be as beautiful as New York. I mean the Pine Beatle is going to destroy all of them anyways. As for helipads... well the "creme de la creme" needs to fly their planes on the new resort and why not. Lesser Peoples are such whiners.
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