Boosters of the ACR project in Tupper Lake have now moved from insulting the integrity of the PROTECT lawsuit against the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) over its approval of the 6,000-acre Adirondack Club & Resort [...]
Wednesday morning September 26th the ARISE group in Tupper Lake, headed by local real estate developer Jim LaValley, issued a press release announcing that the Big Tupper Ski Area will not open this winter and [...]
by Kenneth A. Strike Abstract Below I discuss both the process and the results of the Adirondack Futures Project. I suggest that the process has promoted a well reasoned discussion about the future of the [...]
Jim LaValley's op-ed piece in the July-August 2012 issue of the Adirondack Explorer claims that PROTECT'S lawsuit challenging the Adirondack Park Agency's (APA) permitting of the Adirondack Club and Resort (ACR) project is frivolous. Mr. [...]
PRESS ADVISORY July 18, 2012 Protect the Adirondacks! and the Sierra Club today filed a Reply in their lawsuit against the Adirondack Park Agency, the Department of Environmental Conservation and the developer challenging the APA's [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 Contact: Neil Woodworth, (518) 449-3870 or 669-0128; or John Caffry, (518) 792-1582 ALBANY, N.Y. – The state Department of Environmental Conservation and the Adirondack Park Agency have dropped their [...]
In August 2011, Supreme Court Justice Michael C. Lynch of Albany County, in a lawsuit brought by the Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK) and Protect the Adirondacks! (PROTECT), ruled that the lake is Wilderness and the [...]
PROTECT the Adirondacks! has hired Peter Bauer as its new Executive Director. Starting full-time after Labor Day, Bauer will coordinate PROTECT's citizen advocacy activities and provide leadership to monitor public agencies, conduct research, and manage [...]