The controversial Jumbo Glacier Resort project in the Kootenays will have to start from scratch in gaining environmental approval after the environment ministry determined the project had not been substantially started before its certificate expired.
“They would have to start from the very beginning,” said Environment Minister Mary Polak in a conference call Thursday afternoon of the resort, which is planned as a year-round ski development in the Jumbo Creek valley, 55 kilometres west of Invermere. “They’d have to resubmit a project. It would be as though they had never been through an assessment before.” But project proponent Tommaso Oberti of Glacier Resorts Ltd. is not calling it quits, saying the company plans on moving ahead with “everything we can, of course.”
Oberti said they are reviewing the decision and plan to speak with the ministry during the next few days, along with Glacier’s board of directors. “We’ll have to consider our options.”
BRIAN MORTON – VANCOUVER SUN – JUNE 22, 2015.
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