Jumbo Wild, a Sweetgrass Productions and Patagonia documentary film is premiering next week!Find out when it's coming to a theatre near you and get stoked by watching the trailer!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNRYgn7T2C4

The Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) has issued a determination that Jumbo Glacier Resorts Ltd. is not compliant with the condition of its certificate that requires that ”…residential and commercial structures will be located completely outside the avalanche hazard area.”After more than twenty years of controversy, Jumbo Glacier Resorts Ltd (GRL) must demonstrate that the project is “substantially started”. The Minister of Environment has yet to make this determination.Autumn Cousins, EAO Manager of Compliance, stated in her correspondence with the would-be developers that “GRL must not resume construction at either the Day ...

Immediately prior to expiration of Jumbo Glacier Resort’s environmental approval, two small cement slabs were poured in an attempt to demonstrate that work on the proposed development was substantially started. These slabs apparently represent the day lodge and an additional service building. Currently, BC Environment Minister, Mary Polak, is making a decision as to whether the construction of the proposed $600 million dollar venture can be considered “substantially started.” Any development must meet conditions set out by the Environmental Assessment Certificate.The Environmental Assessment Certificate includes a very specific legally ...

October 12 was a landmark date in the ongoing Jumbo saga. It was the date that I, and many others, have been awaiting for five years. At 11:59pm on October 12, the Environmental Certificate for the Jumbo Glacier Resort expired. Maybe. Over the course of the past 24 years, there have been a lot of landmark dates and landmark decisions. The question is always: what does this mean? What now? Here’s my take on where we're at and where we're going. Jumbo Glacier Resort Environmental Certificate The Environmental Certificate (EC) for the JGR was issued in 2004 after a lengthy environmental assessment process, including a public consultation period. ...

Today, the Union of BC Municipalities unanimously passed a motion opposing provincial funding of municipalities without residents. Delegates representing municipalities across British Columbia voted unanimously to urge the Province of BC to stop funding towns without a population. Put forward by Invermere Mayor Gerry Taft, the resolution is directed at the Jumbo Glacier Mountain Resort Municipality: "THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that UBCM inform the Province of British Columbia that they are strongly opposed to the funding of any municipalities without residents." The Jumbo Glacier Mountain Resort Municipality was created on February 19, 2013. Despite ...