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Italian ski lift operator condemed for vandalizing glacier
Posted: 15 July 2009 10:02 AM  
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The ski lift operator Ski Tofana Marmolada has been given a 6 month prison sentence (suspended) and a 25KEuro find for cutting ski runs into the Marmolada glacier in what is a landmark environmental case for Italy.

Link in Italian
http://mountainwilderness.it/mw/news/displaynews.php?idnews=181

Versionna Googli:-
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://mountainwilderness.it/mw/news/displaynews.php?idnews=181&sl=it&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

In particular the case recognised environmental group Mountain Wilderness’s right to be a plaintiff. Lying some 100km north of Venice The Marmolada is the only remaining large glacier in the Italian Dolomites.