Voids under interchange concern scientists

-Goldstrean News Gazette
Excavations at the Spencer Road Interchange construction area have unveiled a network of void spaces below ground, leading a geoscientist and cave experts to be concerned that the ground will safely support the road.
In and around Langford Lake cave, metres away from where the road will pass, are a number of limestone rock [...]

Environmentalists’ report critical of Bear Mountain

Bill Cleverley, Times Colonist
Opponents of the Bear Mountain development hope to spur debate with the release of a hefty report chronicling the Bear Mountain resort development in Langford.
“It’s to promote public dialogue,” said Zoe Blunt, spokeswoman for the Vancouver Island Community Forest Action Network, which produced the document.
“We noticed that when we asked people for [...]

City of Langford Surprises Us Again With More Crookedness

(Look at this crock of shit. These properties were supposedly in the path of the Bear Mountain Interchange, which was the sight of a ten month treesit to protest such things as this. Looks like they were just in the path of profit and gentrification.)
-from Monday Mag
When the City of Langford began preparations to construct [...]

Crown drops all charges against five Spencer Road protesters

(The article is misleading as it does not clarify that Luke and Noah’s charges were stayed, while Ingmar and Nancy’s were dropped. The crown is not proceeding, but they can later. The threat of prosecution still hangs over their heads. And Ben’s court date is not until tomorrow, as far as we know.
So it’s a [...]

Bear Mountain Forced to Stop Selling Condo Units

(BWAAHAHAHAHA!!!! Hell yeah!!)
Bear Mountain property owners disciplined under B.C. Real Estate Act
Carla Wilson, Times Colonist
Two Bear Mountain condominium developers have been barred from marketing their properties because they broke a key rule under the province’s Real Estate Act.
A cease marketing order was issued April 28 by the province’s superintendent of real estate, under the Real [...]

It Came From Bear Mountain

By JASON YOUMANS, Monday Magazine
Residents say mystery sludge is harming wildlife, but no one can pinpoint the cause
Just below the Bear Mountain Golf and Country Club’s 19th hole is an ugly ecological mess.
Percolating from beneath a pile of blast rock that the resort’s developers used to fill in a large natural basin—with the eventual goal [...]

The Paper Monkeywrench

by Zoe Blunt Guerrilla News
Stew Young, the blustery mayor of Langford, BC, hates to hear the word “no.” When the Municipal Finance Authority declined to finance his pet project, a controversial and environmentally destructive highway interchange, he was furious. Now the city is trying to get the cash from TD Bank (formerly Toronto Dominion.) Not [...]

BC Premier Speaks at Bear Mountain: Spaet Mountain Defenders Locked Out

(Buried as an article titled Province returns $2.2M in fines to city in today’s mainstream press, it has brief mention of the fact that earth warriors still maintain a presence on Spaet Mountain. They were there to remind all those attending this conference of the nefarious destruction that has been taking place in the name [...]

Bear above, Bare below

Environmental activist buys subsurface mineral rights to Bear Mountain, Spencer interchange properties
By Edward Hill - Goldstream News Gazette - March 28, 2008
It’s a crazy world.
Ingmar Lee, a vocal opponent of Bear Mountain and the Spencer interchange, has purchased the subsurface mineral rights to about half of Langford — including below Bear Mountain and the Spencer [...]

Environmentalist stakes claim on Bear Mountain

Bill Cleverley, Times Colonist
Published: Wednesday, March 26, 2008
An environmentalist’s claim to mineral rights under the Bear Mountain resort and Langford’s new highway interchange likely won’t disturb much earth, but it is digging up more headaches and marks for creativity.