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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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MICHAEL GORMAN: Public will be consulted before any development at Owls Head, says minister
Lighthouse Links Development Co. wants to build 3 courses in the Little Harbour area. Michael Gorman CBC NewsJanuary 10, 2020 Real the full article here> Members of the public have decried the fact the move happened with no notice or public consultation and have called on the government to reverse the decision. Government staff’s own Read more…
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MICHAEL GORMAN: ‘We are against backroom deals’: Eastern Shore group against golf resort proposal
Michael Gorman
CBC News
January 3, 2020
Community members call for more transparency in the process
People on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore who oppose a potential golf course development say they’d like to meet with the developer to discuss other possible uses for the land and options for the community.
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MICHAEL GORMAN: Former land planner says province’s golf proposal a ‘betrayal’
Nova Scotia favours golf resort proposal to protecting Owls Head provincial park
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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MICHAEL GORMAN: N.S. won’t protect land with ‘globally rare’ ecosystem that company eyes for golf resort
(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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