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Owls Head court case stalling golf courses, much-needed jobs, Lighthouse Links argues
Francis Campbell
The Chronicle Herald
December 11, 2020
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It’s unfortunate that the golf course proposal for Owls Head “continues to be delayed by this lawsuit which deprives Eastern Shore residents of what could be as many as 200 badly needed local jobs, during the COVID-19 pandemic,” Lighthouse Links said in a statement released to media Thursday.
… The Crown properties, according to the provincial documents submitted to the court in November, include a variety of coastal barrens and wetlands, exceptional bedrock-ridged topography and are home to the piping plover and the barn swallow, two species at risk.
The properties were removed from the protected list in March 2019 without public notification or consultation.
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