Environmentalists attack CP's plan for Lake Louise expansion

April 26, 2001
Source: Canada.com
Original story - link verified on April 26, 2001
By David Paddon

Canadian Pacific Ltd.'s last annual meeting before the huge conglomerate is split into five independent companies was a genteel event - even the save-the-grizzly activists were polite as they tried to derail expansion at CP's famed hotel in picturesque Lake Louise. A Washington-based environmentalist, who identified himself as a shareholder, presented CP chairman David O'Brien with a letter signed by 50 groups opposing a seven-storey convention centre at Chateau Lake Louise. Critics of the hotel expansion say it will increase pollution, road traffic and further endanger wildlife, in particular grizzly bears, claims CP denies

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