The on-again, off-again Garibaldi at Squamish (GAS) mountain resort project is taking another run at environmental approval and this time the proponent believes the provincial government will send it to the next stage.
“This project will go ahead,” said founder and vice-chairman of GAS Inc. Wolfgang Richter of the four-season $5.5-billion project planned 15 kilometres north of Squamish — about 30 minutes closer to Vancouver than Whistler.
Three years ago, the project was put on hold because of concerns within the provincial environmental assessment office, or EAO, that proponents hadn’t done their homework to deal with water resources for the 22,500-bed resort, or the impact that using water from a local salmonid stream would have on steelhead and salmon.
Brian Morton – Vancouver Sun – NOVEMBER 12, 2013.
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