Mountain Life Magazine has a new article on why the proposed Jumbo Resort is a really really big problem.
Click here (PDF) to read the whole story, courtesy of Mountain Life Magazine.
Here’s an excerpt:
Yet the JGR story reveals legitimate issues with process through the Kafkaesque twists and turns the proposal has taken over the years, from pro-development MLA Bennett assuming the role of cheerleader, to a small-town politico appointed mayor of nothing, to a government that barely pays lip service to public input. Biologists have raised serious concerns about impacts to an already depressed grizzly population, and during the EA process, the ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection even acknowledged that “the Project would result in significant impacts to grizzly bears, both in terms of mortality risks and habitat effectiveness, including habitat fragmentation within and outside the Jumbo Valley.”