BOUNDARY ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE
 
WORKING TO PROTECT NATURAL RESOURCES IN THE BOUNDARY
 
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WE ASK FOR TERMINATION or DELAY of
POWDER RENEGADE LODGE PROPOSAL
THIS MASSIVE SKI-CAT OPERATION AND LODGE
 
WANTS TO OCCUPY AN AREA OF 8847 Ha
 
BETWEEN THE KETTLE & GRANBY DRAINAGES 
 
It is an area that can be visualized better when imposed on other areas,  21 km long and up to 12.6 km wide.
 
As the Crow Flies:
 
Grand Forks to Midway   18.6 km
Grand Forks to Nth of Jewel Lake  20 km
Osoyoos to Oliver  17 km
Osoyoos to Bridesville  20.8 km
Osoyoos to Baldy  21 km
Rock Creek to Baldy  21 km 
A LARGE PORTION OF THE PROPOSAL INTRUDES INTO THE GRANBY WEST MOTORIZED VEHICLE CLOSURE AREA and is
ALL IN THE KETTLE GRANBY GRIZZLY WILDLIFE HABITAT ZONE      see later mapping
 
The OVERLAP is about 2400  Ha  or 5930 acres, an area that is about 27% of the proposed tenure and a 19 % bite into the MV closed area. This intrusion is also where the Lodge, other accomodations, service buildings, services and activity hub are planned.
 
THIS INTRUSION ALONE SHOULD HAVE DISQUALIFIED THE APPLICATION IN THAT IT COMPLETELY TRASHES THE INTENT OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE CLOSED AREA
 
NOTE THE LEVEL of FRAGMENTATION AND DISTURBANCE ALREADY IN THIS GENERAL AREA.
 
THE FAILURE OF GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT THE NATURAL VALUES OF THIS AREA,
 by removing this area from consideration, may have now imposed a statutory requirement that this application be considered. If Government is therefore unable to terminate the application at this point (as we recommend) then we say that it would be a travesty to proceed with this flawed application as is, that it is not possible to address the major concerns through any build out process.
 
WE RECOMMEND A DELAY of ONE YEAR BE IMPOSED
in order to address the multiple issues  outlined in the CONCERNS section below
WE RECOMMEND YOU SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS TO FRONT COUNTER BC
 
 (see details in box above) and WRITE, EMAIL, CALL and/or CC other agencies as listed, plus Media. Please include the area MLA amongst those you CC. See Government email addresses   here
 
 
THE APPLICATIONS CAN BE VIEWED AT: 

For additional information, review the adventure tourism commercial recreation tenure management plan which consists of location, infrastructure and impacts, as well as the roadway license of occupation management plan which consists of road & terrain description and environmental impacts.

 

To submit comments, please send your comments directly to Sharon Dailey, Senior Authorization Specialist, Crown Land Authorization, Kootenay Boundary Region.    250-420-6442  sharon.dailey@gov.bc.ca. Please mention that this is related to Crown Land File: 4406147, 4406148, 4406149
 
WE ARE INCLUDING COPIES OF SOME SENT LETTERS OR EMAILS.     Here (page under construction)
Feel free to include, adapt any of the concerns or refer to Concerns listed below:
 
 
WILDLIFE CONCERNS
We are providing articles and links to articles which focus on Grizzly and Wolverines.         here
The common thread is the effect of too many roads on these and other species and this proposal has many more, not to mention   the disturbances and emissions created by a cat-ski, helicopter delivered and supplied operation and other needed machinery.
 
 
CONCERNS
 
A Summary List.
Concerns are expanded on in detail           here
  1. Completely inadequate public notification process and response period.
  2. Overlap into Motor Vehicle Closed area, trashing intent of that closure.
  3. Entire Proposal in Kettle Granby Grizzly Wildlife Habitat Area and GAR Order, trashing intent of that designation.  see later map
  4. Massive operation with ecological footprint far exceeding tenure footprint.
  5. Completely inadequate "armchair" Environmental Assessment.
  6. Due to application timing and season, no opportunity for interested parties including professionals to do the necessary on the ground assessments.
  7. Loss of habitat in an already fragmented landscape with serious consequences for the threatened Kettle-Granby grizzly and other wildlife.
  8. Accelerated runoff with attendant issues from roads and trails leading to increased flood risk downstream
  9. Many new roads and trails with attendant tree removal, proposed in area in addition to excessive existing roads.
  10. Highly mechanized operation with noise, air pollution in and out of tenure area.
  11. Concerns as to Governments intent to favour this application in view of applicants failed application in another area.
  12. Exaggerated economic benefits and no costing of environmental consequences. Irony of proposing high ecological harm, global warming enterprise of a type already deemed to be contributing to loss of ski seasons worldwide, amongst other harms
ADDITIONAL INFO, MAPS & PICTURES.
 GRIZZLY SECURE AREA MAPPING AREA
 
 
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CONCERNS
 
Expanded version   here
 
REPORTS and links re Wildlife Concerns         here
 
COPIES of emails and letters
under construction  
 
 
 
Submit Comments to
 
Sharon Dailey 250-420-6442
sharon.dailey@gov.bc.ca.
Please mention that this is related to Crown Land File: 4406147, 4406148, 4406149
 
other Govt contacts:
 
here