Michael Gorman
CBC News
Posted: December 20, 2019
A former provincial park planner for the Nova Scotia government says a proposal that would see coastal Crown land sold for a potential golf resort is a “betrayal of the public trust” and should be stopped.
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Suzanne Rent
Halifax Examiner
December 18, 2019
A developer wants to buy the lands at Owls Head park on the Eastern Shore to develop up to three golf courses.
Michael Gorman at CBC reports that Owls Head provincial park on the Eastern Shore, an area with a “globally rare” ecosystem, is no longer on a list of provincial properties that will get legal protection.
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(This is the article that broke the news of the secretive delisting and proposed sale of Owls Head Provincial Park)
Michael Gorman
CBC News
December 18, 2019
According to the province, [Owls Head is] one of nine sites in Nova Scotia with a “globally rare” ecosystem and home to several endangered species. For six years, Owls Head has been one of the provincial properties awaiting legal protection.
But that changed last March when, after several years of lobbying by and discussions with a private developer who wants to acquire the land as part of a plan to build as many as three golf courses, the Treasury Board quietly removed the designation, according to records CBC News received in response to an access-to-information request.
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