How radical environmentalists are destroying nature

[Locutus]

From a couple months back:

CALGARY, AB, Apr. 27, 2013/ Troy Media/ – Elizabeth Nickson can write. She developed her skills as a foreign correspondent for Time magazine and as a European bureau chief for Life magazine; later, she was a columnist for The Globe and Mail and the National Post. She has even written a novel about a CIA mind-control program conducted in Montreal. Her latest book is Eco-Fascists: How Radical Conservationists are Destroying our Natural Heritage. One review quite properly described it as a ‘game changer’� because it clarifies so much of the moralizing nonsense spouted by contemporary conservationists, preservationists, enviros, sustainability advocates and a host of other self-described improvers, progressives and green do-gooders. Eco-Fascists deals with two related topics:


(1) the difficulties she experienced in securing permission to subdivide her property on Salt Spring Island and

(2) the larger context of North American environmentalism within which this local process unfolded.

The two are linked because the ‘incidents’� she encountered on B.C.’s Salt Spring Island ‘came from a plan, one that has been carefully devised and put into place over the past 30 years.’� Let us begin with the Salt Spring Island story.


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[damngrumpy]

Ah mention SaltSpring or anywhere in BC and land and subdivision and
history kicks in. We have an agricultural land reserve in this province and
such lands are subject to heavy regulation and have been for decades.
Well since 1973 to be exact. This woman can whine till hell won't have it
the ALR is not going anywhere. The last survey done a few years ago in
BC clearly demonstrated support by over 80 percent.
Many years ago the value of farmland went from a thousand or two to
nearly 10 thousand overnight when it became law. If it were to be
cancelled the land rush would be on and land right now worth nearly 100
thousand per acre would drop by 80% overnight and farmers would have
even more problems. I am in the land reserve and even though it is a bit
of a pain I support it and always have.
People especially from Alberta come here and buy property without finding
out the facts and conditions then whine about the restrictions. Find out before
you buy not after and you save a lot of headaches. Its not about environmentalists
this was instituted long before they came along, its about having a food supply in
BC