It appears that the idea of a Jumbo Glacier Ski Resort has been finally relegated to the rubbish bin of history.
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Conservation has won in the 30-year battle over the $1 billion Jumbo Glacier resort with an agreement to extinguish the developer’s tenures and turn the area into a First Nations protected area, the Ktunaxa First Nation announced Saturday.
The Ktunaxa began an effort last year to buy out proposed resort owner’s tenures for Jumbo to turn the land into a conservation area that they call Qat’muk, backed in part by $16.1 million in funding from Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Canada Nature Fund and $5 million from private foundations.