The adjudicatory hearing is set to resume for the Adirondack Club and Resort project in Tupper Lake, possibly as early as next month.<\/p>\n
As part of that process the various parties are filing “discovery” motions, demanding information about the project.<\/p>\n
Jim LaValley, with the non-profit group ARISE — which supports the resort and restarted the Big Tupper ski mountain last year using volunteers — says he was troubled to learn that one environmental group was seeking information about his organization.<\/p>\n
“We’re not a party to the hearing,” LaValley said.\u00a0 “I don’t understand what [ARISE] has to do with the ten items that are being adjudicated.”<\/p>\n
He said the request was part of a “cloud of threat” hanging over the project from environmental groups, which hope to see the project blocked or heavily modified.<\/p>\n
“There was an air of whether there was collusion and of whether ARISE has commenced the project on behalf of the Adirondack Club,” LaValley said.<\/p>\n
ARISE operates the ski hill based on a temporary permit issued by the Adirondack park Agency.<\/p>\n
The request for information was made by the group Protect the Adirondacks, which has formed a legal defense fund to help pay for its opposition to the resort.<\/p>\n
“We asked for any documents regarding that relationship,” said John Caffry, an attorney in Glens Falls who sits on Protect’s board.<\/p>\n
“Not necessarily because we thought there was anything wrong about it.\u00a0 But one of the things that we’re looking at is the financing of the project and the operation or potential operation of the ski area in the future.\u00a0 We just wanted to see what those documents might reveal about those subjects.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Caffry described the request as routine:<\/p>\n
“It’s not that we had any particular problems with ARISE or their operation of the ski area…When you’re reviewing something like this, the more pieces of the puzzle you have, the more you understand what’s going on, how the project might work.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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