Jumbo Glacier Resort municipality opponents must wait for day in court – BiV

Hearing will investigate whether the B.C. government acted illegally by creating a municipality where there are no people

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has postponed a hearing into whether the B.C. government is justified in creating the Jumbo Mountain Resort municipality near Jumbo Glacier despite no people living in the area.

When Victoria created the municipality, in November 2012, it was seen as another step toward making the controversial, year-round Jumbo Glacier ski resort a reality.

The West Kootenay EcoSociety then filed a petition in B.C. Supreme Court and was ready to argue its case at a hearing February 23 but that hearing is now postponed, the society’s lawyer Jason Gratl told Business in Vancouver.

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