We are getting ready for a ‘surprise’ decision

All has been quiet on the Jumbo front: or has it?

We have reason to expect a forthcoming decision on the Jumbo resort from the B.C. Ministry of Tourism, Culture and the Arts.

Right now, we don’t know what the decision is, but suspect it may be one of the following:

To approve the Master Development Agreement, the next (but not final) step in the long and convoluted application process.
To reject the Jumbo Glacier Resort proposal, thereby finally acknowledging that the people of this region do not want it and wildlife populations cannot sustain its impacts.
If the decision is to approve the Master Development Agreement, we anticipate further delays and more process due to zoning and stakeholder issues.

If it is so, the future of the Jumbo Valley as a wild corridor—absolutely crucial to grizzly populations in the entire Columbia Mountains—is at stake.

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Knocking on closed doors

After 20 years’ discussion on this issue, the single constant has been the lack of clarity about the process.

There has never been clear knowledge of exactly who, when or where the ‘final’ decision, the yes-or-no decision, can be made.

Over the years we’ve heard so many times that decisions would be forthcoming—but they weren’t.

This time, though, we’ve heard about a forthcoming decision from an unusually high number of sources and we are fairly certain that the Jumbo file is moving again—this time rapidly.

Our concern is that—despite the lack of any land-use decision supporting resort development in the Jumbo Valley—there remains no further, official, channel for public input.