{"id":5353,"date":"2012-01-17T06:33:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T11:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5353"},"modified":"2012-01-18T11:26:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T16:26:06","slug":"morning-read-at-crunch-time-environmentalists-divided-on-big-tupper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/01\/17\/morning-read-at-crunch-time-environmentalists-divided-on-big-tupper\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  At crunch time, environmentalists divided on Big Tupper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the Adirondack Park Agency will &#8212; after seven years of deliberations &#8212; give the yay or nay to the massive Adirondack Club and Resort project proposed for Tupper Lake.\u00a0 (You can find the draft permit documents <a href=\"http:\/\/apa.ny.gov\/Mailing\/2012\/01\/fullAgency.htm\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>In these final days before the vote, the Park&#8217;s leading green advocates are on very different pages about the project, with Adirondack Council chief Brian Houseal calling the resort&#8217;s final design &#8220;a win for the environmental community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adirondackexplorer.org\/out-takes\/\">He was interviewed by Adirondack Explorer magazine&#8217;s Phil Brown<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brian Houseal, executive director of the Adirondack Council, said he  is happy with the changes required by the draft permit. \u201cThe developer  has designed the project within the existing regulations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Houseal said he is especially pleased that no further subdivision  will be allowed on the land occupied by the so-called Great Camps. As a  result, he said, the fragmentation of wildlife habitat will be limited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe changes imposed by the APA will probably avoid undue adverse  environmental impact,\u201d Houseal said. \u201cIs that a win for the  environmental community? Yes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But other green groups remain fiercely opposed to the project and this morning Adirondack Wild co-founders Dan Plumley and Dave Gibson scored a coup by placing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/17\/opinion\/a-development-test-in-adirondack-park.html?_r=1\">an op-ed piece in the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Adirondack Club and Resort sets a glaringly low standard, and the  A.P.A. should deny it. Only then might we see an alternative that  actually makes sense for the park\u2019s environment and marketplace and that  concentrates redevelopment where it was intended \u2014 around Big Tupper  Ski Area.<\/p>\n<p>Will Governor Cuomo, like his father and Nelson Rockefeller, insist that  the A.P.A. abide by its law? Or will he risk damaging a park beloved by  millions and globally regarded as a model for sustaining people and  wild nature?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Green groups have also been divided over the likelihood of a lawsuit if the project is approved.\u00a0 The Adirondack Council has downplayed the idea, but other organizations have suggested that it remains an option if Big Tupper goes forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the Adirondack Park Agency will &#8212; after seven years of deliberations &#8212; give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5693,22,5583,884,4817],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5354,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353\/revisions\/5354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}