Stefan Sinclair-Fortin
The Signal
February 7, 2020
The government defended its handling of Owls Head on Thursday, despite continuing calls for the sale of public land to be stopped.
Minister of Lands and Forestry Iain Rankin said he is aware of the public’s interest, but has no plans to protect the area. He said the sale to a private developer is still in progress.
(more…)Alicia DrausGlobal NewsFebruary 6, 2020 5:39 pm View Video and Transcript Here [M]any in the community are pushing back. A Facebook group dedicated to saving the area has been created and has over 2,600 members, and Nova Scotia’s Chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society has started a letter campaign to Read more…
The Globe and Mail
Originally from The Canadian Press
February 7, 2020
The Nova Scotia government is continuing to entertain the idea of selling a section of rugged, Crown-owned land along the Eastern Shore to a private developer, despite growing public opposition.
(more…)Full Article Here> Jim Vibert (jim.vibert@saltwire.com)The Chronicle HeraldFebruary 7, 2020 The public consultation that should have taken place before the provincial government removed Owls Head from the parks and protected areas list will now fall to the prospective developer of the land. Lands and Forestry Minister Iain Rankin said Thursday Read more…
Re: the Feb. 1 opinion piece, “Conservationists have missed the boat on ecotourism.” The headline should have read: “Developers and governments are missing the boat on ecotourism.”
Conservationists are generally busy running around putting out fires: proposals like salmon farms and golf courses in inappropriate places, gold mines that ignore watershed issues, rampant clearcutting and expropriation of Commons land.
Where are the conservationists out there with time on their hands and money to burn? Personally, I don’t know any of them.
Karen Schlick, Musquodoboit Harbour
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If you think the provincial cabinet’s secret decision to remove Owls Head Provincial Park reserve (or an “undesignated” provincial park in government-speak) from a list of public properties slated for permanent protection is of interest only to a few Eastern Shore locals, think again.
Many other provincial parks in HRM, and elsewhere in Nova Scotia, are “undesignated” under the Provincial Parks Act and hence enjoy only administrative protection—not legal protection. On the Eastern Shore, they include Paces Lake Provincial Park, Lower East Chezzetcook Provincial Park, Liscomb Point Provincial Park, and others farther east. Closer to home, they include the immensely popular McCormacks Beach Provincial Park in Eastern Passage and Herring Cove Provincial Park and Blind Bay Provincial Park outside Halifax.
(more…)Nova Scotia’s treasures are in danger and the McNeil government’s culture is the problem Zack MetcalfeHalifax MagazineFebruary 5, 2020 Full Article Here> The sanctity of Nova Scotia’s protected areas has taken a beating in recent yeras, especially those of the Easter Shore, their significance dragged through either corporate or political Read more…
