Whistler

Carney’s Waste Systems has won one of five Sustainability Awards handed out by the Fraser Basin Council this week. The Understanding Sustainability Award was presented to Pat Johnstone of Carney’s.

The Squamish-Lillooet Regional District board, on the advice of Whistler, is engaging EvEco Consultants to fight its appeal of a B.C. Rail application to spray pesticide along the ballast sections of the railway between Pemberton and D’Arcy.

Backcountry Advisory As of Nov. 28 The cool, unusually dry November was great for prolonging the fall mountain bike season, but it has given the mountain snowpack a bit of a shaky start.

He was under attack at the all-candidates meeting in Whistler but the margin of John Reynolds’ victory in the Nov. 27 federal election showed he was clearly the candidate of choice for most of West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast.

It was done two years ago in Meiringen, Switzerland and at the previous world championships in Colorado. Now organizers of the 2001 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships are asking the community of Whistler to do it in Sea to Sky country.

The Village of Pemberton has enlisted regional district backing in its fight against a proposal that would see C.R.B Logging take 154,000 cubic metres of wood off the hills that serve as a backdrop to the community.

One of the global assumptions about the Olympics is that prices in the host city generally rocket skywards and that only the very affluent will be able to afford any kind of accommodation.

The Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Board has voted to expand the Pemberton-Whistler transit service by adding an extra run at 6:15 p.m. The additional net cost of $4,000 will be borne by Whistler-Blackcomb.

To no one’s surprise, Whistler real estate continues to attract national and international attention, generating more than $400 million CDN in sales to date this year – approximately $100 million more than in 1999.

The impact of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games on Whistler would not be "that huge" weighed up against the summer games in Sydney or the winter games in Salt Lake City.