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24 • The Columbia Valley Pioneer November 30, 2012
Your Local COLUMBIA VALLEY REAL ESTATE Professionals
Paul Glassford
Sales Consultant
Invermere, Windermere, Panorama,
Fairmont and Radium Hot Springs
JUMBO OPINION
What’s your reaction to the new mountain resort municipality being created for the proposed Jumbo Glacier Resort?
“It fills me with a great deal of pride
that last week’s announcement paves the
way for us to be home to one of the planet’s
greatest ski areas! It’s time for our community
to heal, unite, embrace our mountain
culture and roll out the welcome mat for the world!”
- Dave McGrath, program director, Panorama Mountain
Freeride Club
“No people, no elections, no meetings
within its boundaries, no tax revenue, another
level of government telling it what to
do, and a seat at the RDEK board. $200,000
in costs and violating local wishes — to
avoid meaningful public process, and land
use decisions being made by elected people. Ridiculous.”
- Gerry Taft, Mayor of Invermere
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“We hope now to build on a cooperative
spirit and to create not only the best
ski area in North America, but also something
that will be recognized and supported
as the pride of the communities in the
Columbia Valley and in the ski region of the Kootenays.”
- Oberto Oberti, proponent, Jumbo Glacier Resort
“Qat’muk, as Ktunaxa call that area,
is sacred. Ktunaxa will not allow anybody
to damage us as a people, and we will
continue to do everything in our power
to protect it from development. We will
proceed with the judicial review of the original approval,
regardless of any designation the B.C. government
grants.” - Kathryn Teneese, Ktunaxa Nation chair
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“It’s undemocratic. I’m fully in support
of developing businesses, and I can
understand the dream of doing something
like that; however, if we value wildlife and
wild spaces, we can’t be putting ski resorts
in the backcountry. I don’t think it’s financially viable.”
- Elana Rosenfeld, CEO, Kicking Horse Coffee
“The same B.C. government forces
that manipulated the regional district,
that rammed through legislation to accomodate
this land grab, have now given
Jumbo Glacier Resort fifteen years
and taxpayers money to designate the headwaters of
the valley as the Municipality of White Elephant.”
- Gerry Wilkie, regional district Area G representative
Total number of stakeholders asked to submit a comment of 50 words or less to The Pioneer: 25
Did not respond: Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development Bill Bennett, regional district board chair Rob Gay, Kinbasket Development Corporation
CEO Dean Martin, Toby Creek Adventures owner Scott Barsby, Premier Christy Clark, Opposition Leader Adrian Dix
Declined to comment: Jumbo Glacier Resorts senior vice president Grant Costello, Home Hardware owner Al Miller
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