Nigel Bankes@NdbYyc1305:
Perhaps the most important question is this – who was lobbying for this absurd Bill?
Why is this Bill so important to the UCP?
Or is it just distraction? #Ableg
I thought that this Bill was performative nonsense but then I see that it gives the LGiC the power to change the status of provincial parks, ecological reserves wilderness areas etc.
Here we go again: DEFEND ALBERTA PARKS
ableg @cpawssab
@ABWilderness
@J_E_Barnard:
The resource-friendly UCP is ALWAYS coming back around to strip-mining our wilderness for their foreign billionaire buddies. They’re just being sneakier about it each time.
Alberta to open Crown land for all-season resort development in bid to boost tourism, The move would open the door to possible future development in places like Kananaskis Country by Matt Scace, Nov 07, 2024, Calgary Herald
In a bid to attract more all-season resorts to the province, the Alberta government is preparing legislation that would open up Crown land to resort developers, opening the door to possible future development in places like Kananaskis Country
and to watch them all burn to bits in climate chaos caused wildfires, rebuilt again and again, stealing from ordinary Albertans to feed riches to UCP pals. Revolting.
In doing so, Alberta will create a new regulator profit raping mobster copied after AER to process applications from developers seeking to build resorts on public land, the provincial government announced Thursday.
The proposal offers the first tangible look into how the province intends to fulfill its lofty goals of more than doubling its tourism economy over the next decade. It released a lengthy framework on those plans earlier this year but didn’t outline specific actions it would take to hit those targets.
As the province embarks on its new strategy, fresh questions over where it will allow resort development — particularly in Kananaskis Country and provincial land in the Rocky Mountains — will no doubt bring interest and concern over the scope of new projects.
The All-Season Resorts Act will consolidate approvals under a new ministry that will undertake public lands, water and environmental rape to ensure rich friends of the UCP are able to kill listed species and destroy public lands and water to their profits’ desires without interferenceprotection regulations.
The Act will allow the province to reclassify public lands to All-Season Resort Areas. In doing so, the province will undertake a public consultation bully and lie to Albertans process as it decides where resorts could be developed.
“To have crowned jewels, you have to have a crown, so we’re going to build out that crown here in the province with more resorts around the entire area,” fucking hellTourism Minister Joseph Schow said in a Thursday press conference.
While the province said it will be accepting proposals for resorts across Alberta, it cited interest in developments on public land near the mountains. “Whether it’s mountain coasters or skiing or it’s downhill mountain biking, spas — you name it, we want to make sure it’s all done with the environment enabling rape and destruction for fast and outrageous profits in mind,” Schow said.
Legislation expected to bring Alberta into step with B.C.
The legislation will help de-risk projects by making the process more accessibleand allowing mass invasion, destruction, noise and more noise, and pollution and more pollution, we promise, very soon, there will be no wildlife left anywhere in Alberta, so that the rich can rape Alberta even more viciously, said Darren Reeder, CEO of the Tourism Industry Association of Alberta, who joined Schow at the podium with Rachel Ludwig, CEO of Tourism Canmore Kananaskis.
“I’ve been privy to discussions in the past where I’ve seen hundreds of millions of dollars worth of projects pick up their bags and go to other provinces because there is a capacity, a legislative framework (elsewhere) to support people get to yes and legalized rape of special lands and their inhabitants.”
Ludwig said working with the province in resort development will help make “Kananaskis and Canmore a leader in year-round tourism.”And, will be made incredibly ugly since authorities in Alberta, notably in UCP, have shit for taste, zip for class and no understanding of that which makes Alberta fantastic.
Alberta is seeing an outflow of travel spending to B.C., Schow said, with Albertans spending $2 billion more in the neighbouring province annually. Of course, most of the rich in Alberta are MAGA wannabes, oil, gas, rape and frac repuglicans from the USA, destroying everything they touch in our province, so they must escape their heartless destruction and sour gas and other deadly pollution here and head to BC for their holidays where they can pretend to have souls and care about earth’s livability. The legislation will bring Alberta into step with B.C., which has had its own resort strategy for several decades.
Proposals won’t be received until the legislation is passed and the new regulator is created, likely before the end of the year. Lease terms will be set to not exceed 99 years. The framework will also require minimum capital investment thresholds and include royalty fees.
The province has set an ambitious target of growing its visitor economy from $10 billion annually to $25 billion by 2035.OMFG. All I see is greed, more greed and bitumen truck loads of selfishness, toxic waste lakes and pollution. Send the tourists to the tarsands to experience reality of what their greedy travelling is doing to our magnificent province.
Alberta parks facing congestion issues
It’s not yet clear where development will be sought. Schow did not directly answer questions about whether proponents of this legislation have requested the province take this approach, and who those proponents are. He said travel and trade partners in Asia and Europe “want more Alberta products,” while Reeder said Albertans are asking for more experiences.
Reeder also cited congestion issues in Alberta’s national parks, which fall under the aegis of Parks Canada and are therefore not provincial jurisdiction, and a failure to maintain levels of investment in provincial park infrastructure that match Alberta’s population growth.And the fucking UCP want to bring in masses more tourists? Douche bags extreme
Space for development on private lands in Canmore will be fully depleted over the next 20 years, should the controversial Three Sisters Mountain Village be completed over that two-decade period, while Banff has a small and finite amount of developable land due to Parks Canada regulations.
There has indeed been a steady increase in congestion across Alberta’s parks around the Rocky Mountains to the point of disrupting emergency response. Parks Canada has said that in 2023, about 1,200 vehicles used the Lake Louise parking lot daily, and another 3,000 to 5,000 were turned away on a daily basis.One of the reasons I avoid the hellscape that is Alberta’s tourist destinations, notably in the mountains. You can’t pay me to go there to get crushed by travelling polluters that don’t give a shit earth’s livability is heating up to beyond repair.
— With files from Bill Kaufmann
William Devargus:
Smith is as daft as they come. Won’t those developments ruin the view. Isn’t that what she said about wind turbines
Paul Baumberg:
I don’t have much of an issue in growing the tourism market, but please don’t built it west of Calgary. The area is already under siege and it’s getting worse, not better. I volunteer building trails in K-Country and it’s crazy what people are doing, and worse, what they’re damaging and the crap they’re leaving behind. Drive north on highway 22 and there are miles and miles of mountain forests which if properly developed could be the new Shangri La developers and the province are looking for.
Lynette Brown:
Do you not see the irony of your comment? Don’t build in X because the “area is already under seige” and “it’s crazy what people are doing and what they’re damaging and the crap they’re leaving behind”.
That will happen at the next spot opened up w/ these irresponsible, naive people.
And what you are describing is not isolated. This kind of behaviour and complete disregard and respect for nature is the very problem that has been playing out since near the end of the pandemic, when more people wanted to get “out there”, and now tourism and a newer, younger crowd do that but have never been taught how to respect the environment they are trampling through.In my experience, even those that are taught don’t give a shit in their lust to serve self and greed.
Ruth Hoffer:
Advocates for destruction, with a belief that they are saving.
You can’t help them.