Photo Galleries
Owls Head Provincial Park by Steven Gallant
Thank you to Steven Gallant for sharing his photos and videos with us.
The first photo faces East, the second faces South, and the third faces West. Please click to enlarge.
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New Photos In and Around Owls Head January 21 2020
Full Article Here> Posted by Richard BellJanuary 22, 2020 1:54 PMEastern Shore Cooperator What does Owls Head Provincial Park look like? I took a walk there on January 21 to get some on-the-ground photos. Few people have actually walked the land and the shore other than locals gathering berries in the Read more…
Letters to the Editor
LTE: 9-iron irony at Nova Scotia’s Owls Head Provincial Park by Candace Stevenson
Letter to the EditorContributed by Candace StevensonThe Chronicle HeraldJanuary 22, 2020 Is it not ironic that the province is seeking our input on six new protected wilderness areas at the same time as it quietly removed a provincial park from the current list without any consultation? Owl’s Head Provincial Park Read more…
For Immediate Release
Press Release – 1st Community Information Meeting
Save Little Harbour/Owls Head Nova Scotia from Becoming a Golf Course is a Facebook public discussion group with 900+ members
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Owls Head Provincial Park – First Community Information Meeting
(SHIP HARBOUR, NOVA SCOTIA, 15 January 2020) The first community meeting to inform Eastern Shore residents about recent government actions which impact Owl’s Head Provincial Park is scheduled for Sunday 26 January at 2 pm in the Ship Harbour Community Hall. In late December CBC reported that the NS government had secretly de-listed Owl’s Head Park from the province’s Parks and Protected Areas Plan where it has been awaiting final Park designation. There was no public consultation. Our understanding is that sale of the Park to an American developer for golf course(s) is pending.
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Video: MLA Kevin Murphy Defends Secret Delisting Process at Chamber Meeting
(more…)In a video on the Eastern Shore Cooperator’s Facebook page, MLA Kevin Murphy mounts a vigorous defense of the controversial decision by the provincial government to remove Owls Head Provincial Park from a list of protected areas in order to sell it to a very wealthy American couple who want to build as many as three golf courses there.
Richard Bell, Eastern Shore Cooperator
Articles
Possible sale of Crown-owned coastal area in Nova Scotia raises concern
Keith Doucette
Global News
Originally from THE CANADIAN PRESS
January 22, 2020, 4:14 pm
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Calls are mounting for the Nova Scotia government to reconsider the potential sale of a section of spectacularly rugged Crown-owned land along the province’s Eastern Shore to private developers.
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Sound Off: Digging deep into Owl’s Head park
The not-so-transparent dealings abound Owls Head Provincial Park
“CBC’s Mike Gorman and Jean Laroche dig into the lack of transparency” in this video.
Articles
MICHAEL GORMAN: Owls Head development would mean ‘complete destruction’ of its ecology, says biologist
Michael Gorman
CBC News
January 21, 2020 6:00 AM AT
Scientists at Saint Mary’s University join residents calling on government to abandon plan to sell park.
Several scientists at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax are adding their names to the growing list of people who want the Nova Scotia government to abandon plans to pursue a sale of Owls Head provincial park.
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