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  1. They don’t accept apologies, so neither should we.
    In fact, when one of ours offers an apology, they attack in a pack, anyone got other ideas what the mayor of Whistler should suffer for?

    1. Alberta should launch a public campaign to Ski Alberta, while Pointing out everything wrong with Whistler.
      Dangerous highway.
      Overpriced accommodation and food.
      Homeless and drug use.
      A community deadest against Alberta values.

  2. no shortage of stupid out there . tell the s o b that he has to live without oil and gas immediately. stupid, stupid, stupid. ———–equally stupid, captcha, ten fire hydrants later.

  3. Once I realized this wasn’t satire, I consider this as good a definition of chutzpah as there is. Screw them.

  4. Question. Why doesn’t Whistler demand money from BC coal companies? or from Metropolitan Vancouver which has the largest coal export terminal in North America?

    Answer 1: Its clean, green, BC eco-coal.

    Other answers?

  5. Hypocrites.

    Whistler only exists because of the recreation industry. How much fossil fuels have been burned over the years by millions of people traveling to Whistler for nothing more than fun? Air flights from around the world, billions of kms driven from Vancouver to Whistler, all the power consumed for hotels, lifts, heating, lighting, grooming equipment, etc, etc. Hell, they get about half their employees from far-flung Australia. I doubt they kayak there.

    Whistler and other cities blaming the oil industry for the ‘effects of climate change’ is kinda like alcoholics blaming the liquor store for the effects of their own excessive drinking.

    1. Kayaks, paddles, life vests and helmets are made from fossil fuel derivatives. So even if they kayaked there they would be consumers of fossil fuels.

    2. “How much fossil fuels have been burned over the years by millions of people traveling to Whistler for nothing more than fun?”

      Good point. But let’s not lose sight of the big picture here. It’s mid-December already and the Global Warming produced from burning all those fossil fuels has reduced the snowpack to only 1.7 meters / 67″ / 5 1/2′:
      https://www.onthesnow.com/british-columbia/whistler-blackcomb/skireport.html

      But not to worry. More snow is on the way:
      https://www.google.com/search?https://weather.com/weather/tenday/l/CAXX0538:1:CA

  6. Cancelled our ski trip to Whistler in favor of Baniff or Whitefish, Montana. Emailed the mayor to say so. I believe Whistler is now owned by the Aspen ownership group. I wonder if the same demand was mailed to Exxon?

    1. CT glad to hear you cancelled your trip to Whistler. A friend cancelled his trip to Whistler and also let the mayor know this.

      Re Exxon, the postmedia article said CNRL was the only Canadian company to receive the Whistler letter, but similar requests for funding from the resort were sent to 19 international producers, including British Petroleum, ExxonMobil, ConoPhillips, Royal Dutch Shell and Devon Energy.

      I was not planning to go to Whistler, but I have stopped all travel to BC. I no longer buy BC wines, and I refuse to buy BC sewage seafood.

  7. If you choose to live in a climate that requires energy for heat for months out of the year, you really ought to STFU about global warming.

    1. Well according to one little snowflake I met recently, anyone who lives in the cold parts of Canada shouldn’t live there and we wouldn’t need fossil fuels to stay warm. This is the mentality we’re dealing with. Oh, she was from B.C. of course and used a car to get to Saskatchewan to share her wisdom with me. Why do I feel dumber now?

      1. anyone who lives in the cold parts of Canada shouldn’t live there and we wouldn’t need fossil fuels to stay warm

        I’m reminded of a line from an old Star Trek episode in which Spock likens the technology he has to work with to wearing bear skins and using stone knives. Maybe that’s what the snowflaky types want us to do.

        Besides, isn’t her comment racist? After all, don’t the Inuit live in a colder climate?

  8. It would seem that the best way for mayor of Whistler and his likeminded neighborhood to solve their problem is to set up a tax for gasoline in their area and see how that would work out.
    Hell half of BC don’t pay taxes they work of the grid. If they did not have sales tax the place would have to close down.
    Vancouver has a gas tax, why not Whistler and all the other holy people.
    These socialist idiots, they just shoot the shit and don’t know what will happen, they imagine the best, they have no plan B because that would require some serious thought.

    1. don’t know what will happen, they imagine the best, they have no plan B because that would require some serious though

      I noticed that a lot while I was living in Vancouver when I began grad studies at UBC. The worst were the ones who claimed to be “enlightened”, a term now known as “woke”.

  9. yea…what a bunch of morons and so easily explains their continuing enchantment with the NDP and GREENS. I replied on the Herald article of their unbelivable Hypocrisy re: Being CHINA’S # 1 Supplier of Coal – which when burned in their ~2000 Electrical Generating Stations was the SOLE source of any Pollution – “emissions” being dropped on their pristine vacation spot.
    Westerly winds n all….

    The mayor also ranted on about wild fires: Seems to me he should be bitchin to GreenPeace and other ENGO’s who have forced BC govts to forgo Slash – Controlled Burns due to some insect or varmints habitat being possibly destroyed. That along with the herbicide spraying of deciduous Trees (that have a natural resistance to fire), such as Birch and Coton Woods in favour of more Coniferous Trees….all in the name of Profit.

    Fcuk Lower mainland BC ….
    The BIG one is overdue..??
    Couldn’t come soon enough in my mind.

  10. I’m old enough to remember when Jeffery Rubin, CIBC analyst was saying we were out of oil. Anyone who goes to an investor conference run by that company is bound to lose bag fulls. As for virtue signaling mayors of BC towns what else is new? Google Mayor Lisa Helps sometime to see what a nightmare looks like.

  11. Deep down, tourism and green theocracy don’t mix very well as when the deep green get involved it becomes apparent that activities involving flagrant spending on unnecessary “carbon intensive” activities, there are a lot of options when it comes to people getting rid of their disposable cash for fun. A resort town based on people travelling great distances to play on the snow on vertically oriented permanent clear cuts is one such activity.

    Most municipal politicians can barely comprehend how their sewage systems work (unless they are from the Victoria area) let alone confine themselves to those areas that actually fall under their jurisdiction including what makes their economy work. Saving the planet from imaginary threats seems to be their highest priority.

    1. “tourism and green theocracy don’t mix very well”

      Hypocrisy is always forgivable for True Believers

  12. Looks like another stoner-snowboarder just got buried by an avalanche of his own creation.

    Surprised that CIBC showed some balls.

  13. Margaret Wente’s column on Canada’s Climate Hypocrisy was in the globe and mail yesterday.
    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canada-climate-hypocrite/

    “Embarrassingly – for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, at any rate – Canada’s performance is rated as “highly insufficient” by Climate Action Tracker, an outfit that monitors these things. He plans to fix this through carbon taxes, which are set to start next year.”

    “But according to a United Nations scientific panel, our carbon taxes will be too low to have any impact on behaviour. The UN report estimates that governments would need to impose carbon prices of US$135 to US$5,500 per tonne of emissions to keep global warming in check – levels that are politically impossible. By contrast, Canada’s carbon tax will start at $20 per tonne and rise to $50 by 2022. At best it will be an ineffective nuisance.”

    Where have you been Marg? Some of us have been paying Carbon taxes for years! But outside of Toronto and Quebec nothing matters except that the money keeps flowing.

    But then she gets a better
    “China is so big that anything Canada does to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions is irrelevant. China’s annual increase in carbon emissions is about the same as Canada’s entire annual carbon output.”

    “Develop a healthy skepticism for people who warn that the seas will boil and the tides will rise and sweep us all away. Remember that the Malthusians have been wrong about the fate of the Earth for the past hundred years. I expect that this time will be no different.”

    The sad part is that Turdeau, Butts, and Barbie keep saying Canada will meet its Paris commitments. How? They are keeping quiet until after the next election. Then we will find out that Canadioans will spend billions on Carbon Credits each year.

    1. Some of us have been paying Carbon taxes for years!

      I’m sure that the reason my groceries are now more expensive and I have to pay over 10% more for airfare when I fly to my inherited house in B. C. is because of the “carbon tax”.

      “Carbon tax” is just another word for a quick cash grab.

    2. “The sad part is that Turdeau, Butts, and Barbie keep saying Canada will meet its Paris commitments”

      No, the sad part is that Canadians are stupid enough to elect this crew

      1. “No, the sad part is that Canadians are stupid enough to elect this crew”

        And the really, really sad part will be when Mr. 2 percent Scheer says that only HIS plan would have any chance of meeting the Paris Climate Accord bullshit that he fully supports and endorsed.

    3. “China is so big …”

      Most Canadians have no idea as to the enormity of China’s industrial activity, and how insignificant Canada is. The only way to truly believe it is to see it, and sadly the vast majority of Canadians won’t, and will never really appreciate how badly they’ve been fleeced into agreeing to pointless carbon taxes.

    4. “The sad part is that Turdeau, Butts, and Barbie keep saying Canada will meet its Paris commitments. How? They are keeping quiet until after the next election. Then we will find out that Canadians will spend billions on Carbon Credits each year.”

      Exactly, and then $20 per tonne will be chicken feed. If the price goes to where the evil cabal wants it to go and other regulations they want are put in place then morons like this AGW mayor will see their elitist town become a ghost town. Many other vacation places will also bite the dust as the middle class struggles just to put food on their table and a roof over their head.

      The evil cabal should be tarred and feathered and run out of the country on a rail.

  14. Carbon taxes are so 1995. What you need are ‘flex-regs’.

    Divisive carbon prices are much ado about nothing

    I am a climate-energy economist. Most of us tell politicians: “You must price carbon to succeed against climate change.” Later, after an election, we say, “You didn’t do it and won. That’s bad policy.” Or, we say, “You did it and were defeated. You would have won had I designed and explained it. My students say I’d have been a great politician.”

    Fiction? Think again. This has been the economists’ narrative for decades as politicians wrestle with the unforgiving task of decarbonization.

    But guess what? Carbon pricing is not essential to stop burning coal and gasoline. We economists only say it is because we prefer it. If we were honest, we would explain that decarbonization can be achieved entirely with regulations. These will cost more, but not a great deal more if policy-makers use flexible regulations, or “flex-regs,” that allow companies and individuals to determine their cheapest way to decarbonize. . .

    Huh?

    1. That’s basically implementing “it’s not a tax, it’s a penalty”. He says it like that option would be more popular but it won’t be.

  15. Dear Mayor Crompton,
    Please shove your oil based plastic resort where the CO2 doesn’t shine.

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