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12-13-2018, 04:41 PM
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Whistler trying get oil companies to pay for climate change costs
Whistler wants Alberta Oil Companies to pay for their costs of climate change. Wow.
https://business.financialpost.com/n...c-b17f42ca84a1
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12-13-2018, 05:05 PM
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There is stupid, special stupid, BC stupid.
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12-13-2018, 05:18 PM
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There is stupid, special stupid, BC stupid.
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BC has no monopoly on stupid... you've been on this forum long enough to know that.
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12-13-2018, 05:26 PM
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whistler is full of snowflakes.... actually canada is full of snowflakes now, hopefully the next winds of change will blows them all away.
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12-13-2018, 05:31 PM
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You have to wonder if people have nothing better to do than think this s!!t up. Scary thing is that our courts are dumb enough to agree with Wistler.
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12-13-2018, 06:07 PM
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Just when you thought they couldn’t get dumber.....enter....Whistler mayor 
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12-13-2018, 06:26 PM
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I wonder why they do not target that big pile of US thermal coal that is staged for shipping to China, on the island in Vancouver harbour? Once burned that coal is much more harmful to the environment. A little to close to home perhaps and they do not want to draw attention to their own backyard?
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12-14-2018, 10:14 AM
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What a joke, Vancouver is the biggest exporter of coal in the world, time to look in the mirror maybe?
That's what happens when you quit eatin meat and crank 20 marleys a day!!
And the rich yuppies at whistler, get them to pay for this crock o'bs! It seems no one wants to work anymore and everyone just wants a free handout for doin absolutely jack squat!!!
One thing that really chaps my ass is all these useless crybabies who think they have all the answers, but don't work, and have zero life skills (aside from doin dabs) , u wanna make difference? Put the bong down and get a job, earn yer dang keep!!!!!!!!
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12-19-2018, 09:57 AM
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I think that right answer, whether for Whistler or Vancouver, is for the oil cos to stop selling their product there. My thought on Trans Mountain was exactly that, perhaps Alberta should have stopped sending them refined products if they really don't like oil.
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12-14-2018, 12:30 PM
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Just heard on the radio that apparently, CIBC has cancelled their 21st annual Whistler Institutional Investor event in January and is looking for a new location for their next event. Sweet and swift justice!
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12-14-2018, 12:33 PM
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We have a group of 70 electrical industry folk that go every year for a long weekend of snowboarding/skiing and shannanigans.
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we cancelled the whistler event as of this morning.
If I get a copy of the letter I'll post it for all to see.
Not going to end their business. But a $70,000 kick to the face for them.
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We have a group of 70 electrical industry folk that go every year for a long weekend of snowboarding/skiing and shannanigans.
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we cancelled the whistler event as of this morning.
If I get a copy of the letter I'll post it for all to see.
Not going to end their business. But a $70,000 kick to the face for them.
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Good for you!!! I got chastised on this board last week for saying i wouldn't buy a toothpick in BC.
It just gets better and better in regards to our amazing westerly neighbors. LOL.....
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12-17-2018, 01:42 PM
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Good for you!!! I got chastised on this board last week for saying i wouldn't buy a toothpick in BC.
It just gets better and better in regards to our amazing westerly neighbors. LOL.....
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I love BC, and enjoy visiting. We will likely hit big white instead.
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12-17-2018, 07:59 PM
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News today -- West Coast Environmental Law has received $300K from the Tides Foundation.
Whoever posted follow the money has the target on the root cause.
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12-14-2018, 01:08 PM
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Just heard on the radio that apparently, CIBC has cancelled their 21st annual Whistler Institutional Investor event in January and is looking for a new location for their next event. Sweet and swift justice!
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Right on! I hope they choose somewhere in Alberta.
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12-14-2018, 01:11 PM
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Whistler, bunch of attention seeking, disingenuous morons!!! Hope they get a bunch more kicks from everyone for this level of stupidity and Canada bashing.
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12-14-2018, 07:53 PM
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12-15-2018, 04:26 AM
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Whistler is full of idiots. I used to be proud of being born and raised in BC. Now not so much. We have a gov. That should not be in power making decisions that have killed this province and made an enemy of Alberta. I bet the mayor wishes he could grow a man bun,ph king idiot.
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12-15-2018, 07:03 AM
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Is anyone surprised by this? Instead of making money, this stunt is costing them money.
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12-15-2018, 10:32 AM
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Just heard on the radio that apparently, CIBC has cancelled their 21st annual Whistler Institutional Investor event in January and is looking for a new location for their next event. Sweet and swift justice!
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I heard it was just their oil and gas part of the event.
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12-15-2018, 11:04 AM
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Just when you think it's safe to go back into burnt columbia another brain dead left coaster gives you a good reason to holiday in Sask, NB, MB, NS, NL, PEI,NWT,Yukon or have a staycation in beautiful Alberta.
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12-15-2018, 11:05 AM
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Follow the money
The mayor of Whistler is a well meaning, useful idiot, as well as being one of the multitude of social justice hypocrites in this country.
However, he is not the source of the problem in this story. He and other municipal governments in BC were persuaded to go for the easy money by the anti-business, conniving shysters at West Coast Environmental Law who were looking for an easy score. Quote from the Calgary Herald article:
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Fifteen other B.C. municipalities have sent similar letters to oil and gas producers under an initiative by West Coast Environmental Law.
The firm’s campaign started as a motion to the Union of British Columbia Municipalities during its annual meeting this year, but the motion was defeated.
The West Coast Environmental Law campaign carried on with the letter-writing program to “demanding accountability from fossil fuel companies,” the campaign website reads.
Andrew Gage, a lawyer with the firm, said the goal was to start a conversation about who ought to pay for the effects of climate change.
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It's a win-win for the law firm: they get paid, the stories generate more business, and on the rare occasion, like this one, that the effort backfires? Someone else is the face and name (Jack Crompton) that suffers the backlash.
Having said that, I would be happy to see Whistler turned into a ghost town and reclaimed by nature. 
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12-15-2018, 09:19 PM
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Having said that, I would be happy to see Whistler turned into a ghost town and reclaimed by nature. |
Whistler was a nice place before it became "Whistler". Now just another enclave of progressive wealthy nimby hypocrites .
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12-15-2018, 10:21 PM
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I believe more should follow the path laid by urban redneck.
The focus should not be on Whistler alone.
There would appear to be a brotherhood of sorts in cahoots with one certain Law group.
Focus always wins the hunt.
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12-16-2018, 09:28 PM
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Whistler was a nice place before it became "Whistler". Now just another enclave of progressive wealthy nimby hypocrites .
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That sounds like the Castle Park that the NDP created in Southern Alberta. A real estate sanctuary for the rich environmentalists.
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12-17-2018, 06:28 AM
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Originally Posted by urban rednek
The mayor of Whistler is a well meaning, useful idiot, as well as being one of the multitude of social justice hypocrites in this country.
However, he is not the source of the problem in this story. He and other municipal governments in BC were persuaded to go for the easy money by the anti-business, conniving shysters at West Coast Environmental Law who were looking for an easy score. Quote from the Calgary Herald article:
It's a win-win for the law firm: they get paid, the stories generate more business, and on the rare occasion, like this one, that the effort backfires? Someone else is the face and name (Jack Crompton) that suffers the backlash.
Having said that, I would be happy to see Whistler turned into a ghost town and reclaimed by nature. |
Leeches.
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12-14-2018, 01:07 PM
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Reason number 101 not to spend any vacation money in British Columbia.
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