Media Coverage

No timeline for decision on Archibald Lake wilderness area, says N.S. minister

In early 2020, as controversy mounted over the potential of Owls Head being sold to a private developer to build golf courses, the government leaned on the potential protection of Archibald Lake as proof of its commitment to the environment.

In a February 2020 information note to the minister of the day, obtained by CBC News through a freedom of information request, government talking points highlight the need to balance protected areas with job creation in rural communities.

It goes on to note a number of new properties other than Owls Head identified for protection, including Archibald Lake.

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By Save Owls Head, ago

Atlantic Gold’s imaginary conservation land

In 2008, Atlantic Gold was given provincial approval for the gigantic Touquoy open pit gold mine with the condition that within 4 years the company buy and give the province nearby land for conservation purposes. 13 years later, that condition is still unmet, and the province is making no real effort to enforce it.

Jamie Simpson says there is certainly irony in this plan — be it as yet unfulfilled — for Atlantic Gold to procure conservation lands, given what the province has not done to protect Owls Head Park, a “globally rare” ecosystem on the Atlantic Coast about 30 kilometres southeast of Atlantic Gold’s open pit gold mine at Moose River.

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By Save Owls Head, ago

Letter: Release Information

Contributed by Angela Poirier
The Chronicle Herald
May 15, 2021

Originally published here>

Re: “Proponent of Owls Head golf development has acquired more than 20 area properties,” May 2.

Karen White, publicist for the proponents of this project, says, “It is unfortunate that so much misinformation is clouding an objective view of the project.” I would like to think that objective analysis would come from government and not the developer’s side of the house.

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By Save Owls Head, ago

Letter: Observations from ‘away’

We are clearly living at a time when global issues show how artificially we have divided the world, e.g. the pandemic and the climate crisis know no borders and what follows pertains to the latter.

… We have therefore been very interested in what happens in Nova Scotia and have noted a recent disturbing trend. Corporate interests seem to have overtaken the thinking of political leaders and although politicians sometimes speak loudly with an environmental tongue, they often seem to silently act for the dollar above all – “the price of everything, the value of nothing,” comes sadly to mind. We saw it in the open net salmon issues and now in the Owls Head Provincial Park situation, amongst others.

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By Save Owls Head, ago