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Owls Head Delisting Threatens Crown Lands Across Province

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Posted by Richard Bell 
January 14, 2020 3:25 PM
Eastern Shore Cooperator

The revelation that the province’s Department of Lands and Forests has been secretly planning to sell Crown land on Owls Head to a wealthy American couple who own Lighthouse Links Development Company to build as many as three golf courses has stunned Nova Scotians.

For more than four decades, members of the public had every reason to assume that Owls Head would eventually become a fully protected provincial park. As late as the week of January 6th, a Department of the Environment online map of protected areas showed the area as “Owls Head Provincial Park” as late as January.

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PC’s Brad Johns on Owls Head

Posted by Richard Bell
January 14, 2020 3:01 PM
Eastern Shore Cooperator

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In a phone interview with the Cooperator, Brad Johns, Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party critic for the environment, was blunt about the province’s decision to delist Owls Head Provincial Park and sell the land to a golf-course developer: “The fix is already in.”

Johns said that his party supported exploring opportunities for economic development, but that the time for public consultation was before making a decision, not after. “What they’ve done is put the cart before the horse here.”

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Owls Head Provincial Park has been deleted from the province’s map of parks and protected areas

Tim Bousquet
Halifax Examiner
January 13, 2020

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Last year the government quietly removed Owls Head provincial park in Little Harbour from the province’s pending protected status list. The move was made so negotiations could begin with Lighthouse Links Development Co., which hopes to acquire the 285 hectares of coastal headland, add it to land it already owns, and build up to three golf courses.

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Lighthouse Links Development Company

Richard Bell Eastern Shore CooperatorJanuary 4, 2020 Full Article Here> LIGHTHOUSE LINKS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY – as of:  2019-12-30 01:33 PM Business/Organization Name: LIGHTHOUSE LINKS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY  Registry ID: 3301517  Type: N.S. Unlimited Liability  Nature of Business:   Status: Active  Jurisdiction: Nova Scotia  Registered Office: 1100-1959 UPPER WATER STREET HALIFAX NS Canada B3J 3N2 Mailing Read more…

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