Speaking of...
- Out of the way
- Out in the countryside
- In the middle of no where
A new racetrack is being promoted, 80 miles out of the city of Calgary, Alberta.
https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/contentious-500m-motor-sports-racing-park-near-southern-alberta-hamlet-seeks-environmental-approval-1.5320641
Needless to say not many tree huggers around here to protest building a racetrack. There will be, for publicity reasons as there always is. The most resistance, farmers.
Badlands Motorsports wants to create a nearly $500 million motor sports racing park with multiple race tracks, a hotel, and condominiums in an undeveloped area about four kilometres east of the hamlet.
The filing goes on to say the company expects up to 280 vehicles on site during weekdays with the number swelling to 400 on weekends. Plans are in place to have the two courses operate 12 hours a day, 200 days a year, with 15 to 20 cars on the track at any given time, and the company expects to employ between 100 and 200 staff.
Whining from the very few, so noise is a valid complaint. More so is the traffic.
The racetrack development has raised the hackles of nearby residents.
Rosebud is peppered with signs opposing the racetrack, as are the rural roads leading toward the proposed racetrack site.
He and a neighbour Wendy Clark have continued their fight to the provincial Environmental Appeals Board, arguing the company’s plan to infill two wetlands, modify three others and build a storm water system will cause irreparable damage to the environment.
"It is a sanctuary for the wildlife on the prairie here because all the rest of the land has been basically cultivated up. And so the river valleys are their only sanctions anymore." said Skibsted "It just seems crazy to be putting stuff like this. In a in a river valley. It just doesn't seem to make sense to me.”
Progress
Sad to say no one wants to farm anymore, its gone "Big Business", offspring of farmers are moving on. Right to repair farm equipment is the same thing going on with cell phones. John Deere is doing it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XN98T0KLGI
“The only thing that I'm concerned about is our future generations. Will it have an impact on the future farmers and whether they choose farming as an occupation? Does it become appealing to them to make their life here, if it's no longer the quality of life that we've had, that we've enjoyed?"
Maybe they will find some dinosaur bones when building, 20 miles from the Dinosaur Museum and where most dino fossil's are found.
The farmers will want to earth movers to find an Indian Burial on the site to shut it down.
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Electric racing is a new thing to find interesting. If someone brings a competitive electric to the Baja 500
Baja is a special case, all that jiggling, all that movement, all that knocking around. Would be a great test bed for battery development.
When I was wanting to go racing a few years ago, most of my time was going to be at tracks well over 100 miles away. Darn. Not sure how much of the country has that problem.
Yeah, our small tiny racetrack left 15 years ago, was out on the city limits, now the city landfill. Not sure of the illegal street racing problem in my city, I hear its bad in Toronto and Vancouver. Having a racetrack is nice, but like your 100 miles, this new one being built is 80 miles away. What they really should do is build a casino. Thats the real money maker. Our government recently passed legistlation where VLT's can be run 24/7, where before they were closed at 3am, tables at 2am, booze is 2am here. The real gambling problem people would be sitting at a VLT at 4am, but the government dont care about that, they'll put out their lame warnings instead of slow down speed of play.