Save Owls Head

Owls Head development: An economic driver or an ecological disaster?

“It’s absolutely ludicrous to compare Inverness to Owls Head,” said Trider, alluding to Cabot Links in Inverness having been built on an abandoned coal mine site along the Gulf of St. Lawrence.“Owls Head, they are going to have to totally destroy the place to build the golf courses and the real estate development they are proposing there,” Trider said. “They can greenwash it as much as they like, ‘oh golf courses are organic.’

“That’s OK when you are dealing with maybe an abandoned farm or a clearcut or some place that has a capacity for golf course development. Owls Head has none of that. There is no what you really can call soil there. There’s kind of an organic duff layer that has evolved over centuries in the rock ridges, a peat-like soil.”

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By Save Owls Head, ago

If Owls Head can be sold, then so can any of 200 other properties awaiting designation

If the government’s secret deal to sell and destroy Owls Head Provincial Park (and the surrounding marine environment) to build a golf course goes through, then that will give a green light to every greedy developer and their attached politicians to try to sell off these gems. These areas should be protected for me, my children, my grandchildren, and generations to come.

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By Save Owls Head, ago

RICHARD BELL: Pollsters Asking Questions About Owls Head

Someone is paying for a phone poll of people on the Eastern Shore to see what they think about destroying Owls Head Provincial Park. You can listen to the poll on this link on Soundcloud.

This poll suggests that someone is getting really worried about the political impact of Premier Rankin’s decision as Minister of Lands and Forestry to secretly de-list Owls Head Provincial Park and sell it to American billionaire Beckwith Gilbert. Gilbert’s company, Lighthouse Links, plans to grind the park into sand in order to build luxury housing and a few golf courses.

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By Save Owls Head, ago

Lisa Roberts Recognizes “Save Owls Head” Group

SAVE LITTLE HBR./OWLS HEAD: DELISTING DECISION -CHALLENGE

LISA ROBERTS: Madam Speaker, today I want to recognize citizens who are organizing to save Owls Head. Their Facebook group surpassed 5,000 members in the last few days.

Members of the group have also fundraised to fund a legal case that seeks to challenge the secret process that resulted in Owls Head being disposed of as a Crown asset and protected area for all Nova Scotians.

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By Save Owls Head, ago