Across the nation, 22 Fairmont Hotels & Resorts – like The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies – are heating things up in the kitchen.
Planted against a backdrop of towering firs and turquoise waters, the chateau offers an ideal location within Banff National Park, as well as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Recognized across the globe for its forward-thinking environmental program, the hotel has just announced efforts to recycle kitchen oils as an alternative fuel initiative, fueling both grounds equipment and two resort shuttle buses.
Nearby, The Fairmont Banff Springs partners with a local high school and the Zero Emission Research Institute to alter cooking oils for use on the golf course.
Eager to getaway? Check out The Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise’s Yoga Retreat package, offered later this month, which includes three nights accommodations, five yoga sessions and a guided hike.
(Rates for the package start at $799 CAD per person.) Call 866.540.4413 for further details.
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This green initiative is great but it is nothing less than a smokescreen. The province of Alberta is the heaviest industrial polluter in Canada and if you go up north towards the town of Fort McMurray, you will find a total ecological disaster and wasteland. Tar sand pits are exposed, migrating birds are dead, two headed fish thrive, and the malodorous air is so full of particulates and gases from the tar sand excavation and extraction that it causes breathing difficulty. Not to mention that elevated numbers of birth deformities and cancer cases have been recorded. Google Fort McMurray and tar sands pollution…