A sizable French ski
A sizable French ski resort is closing because of a lack of snow, making it difficult for it to survive.
Due to dwindling snowfall, a sizable French alpine ski resort will close.
The resort was unable to get funding to convert its pistes into year-round attractions.
The municipal council of Alpe du Grand Serre in the Isère region of southeast France.
Decided not to support efforts to wean the community off of its dependency on winter sports.
And as a result, the ski station will not reopen this year.
The president of the council informed radio station France Bleu.
In response to dwindling snowfall. The community supported Alpe de Grande Serre 2050.
A plan to upgrade the station for summer and winter sports and replace ski lifts.
A day before the vote, on Friday, Marie-Noëlle Battistel.
The Isère region’s member of parliament, stated on the local television station Télégrenoble.
The closing of the station would be genuinely devastating for the region.
Approximately 200 employment are dependent on it. A major national signal is sent when a station of this caliber is closed.
No chance
Since 2017, almost 2.8 million euros, or $3.07 million, have been committed to turn the area into a year-round resort, according to Council President Coraline Saurat.
She claimed that finishing the project’s final years would be too risky due to the growing unpredictability of winter snow.
Speaking to France Bleu on Saturday, she stated, “The impact of committing to two more years was tremendous with little promise for the future.”
“The government is not providing us with any tangible assistance for the resort’s future or for a transitional management,” stated Saurat, who had previously alerted France Bleu in January about the resort’s impending financial deficit of 7 million euros [$7.67 million].
Following a public vote, the Grand Puy station in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region of France was also permanently closed on Sunday.
The municipality of La Sambuy, which operates a family-friendly ski resort close to Mont Blanc.
Demolished its lifts last year because it could no longer afford to keep them operating during the short winter sports season.
According to Carlo Carmagnola, a snow specialist at Météo France who investigates how climate change affects ski resorts, 40% of French Alps ski resorts now depend on artificial snow to remain open. He revealed this revelation to CNN earlier this year. According to him, it is up to 80% in Austria and 90% in Italy.
