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Snow making is a wasteful use of energy

Dear Editor : Is it only me? Am I alone in being sadly amused by your article about Cypress Mountain making snow? We are constantly bombarded by demands to use less energy to "save the planet," and here we have a single ski area running 37 machines 2

Dear Editor:

Is it only me? Am I alone in being sadly amused by your article about Cypress Mountain making snow?

We are constantly bombarded by demands to use less energy to "save the planet," and here we have a single ski area running 37 machines 24 hours a day for what can only be considered a non-essential purpose. I believe snow making is very energy demanding.

I will not take personal energy conservation seriously until snow making, night skiing, night golf and a host of other wasteful uses of energy for non-essential purposes become socially unacceptable.

Gordon Passmore

North Vancouver