Glamping development gets green light despite cultural, environmental appeals
Glamping development gets green light despite cultural, environmental appeals

 By Jessica Lee  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Despite objections of cultural significance to Indigenous peoples and concern over wildlife habitat and migration, a section of land in Kananaskis has been approved for a 20-unit glamping development.   The Land and Property Rights Tribunal’s (LPRT) decision states the conditions of Ridgeback Glamping Inc.’s proposed 2.83-hectare project in the Kananaskis Public Land Use Zone address potential impacts to bear habitat and the migration of other native wildlife, and further, that cultural concerns could not be addressed in the development permit.   “The LPRT determined that the concerns raised related to bear habitat and bear migration had been sufficiently addressed during the lengthy provincial approval process and as conditions on the disposition and on the development permit issued by the KID (Kananaskis Improvement

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