The Railway Station comes to life this month with a busy line up of events and projects. Opening day is scheduled for Monday, June 17th. The Museum was fortunate to receive funding from both the Provincial and Federal governments to hire students for the summer. The first few days, staff will be on site setting up the Visitor Information Centre, getting the displays ready for the museum, and welcoming its first tourists of the season.
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At the Nova Scotia Lions Club Convention on April 27th, the President of the Musquodoboit Harbour & District Lions Club, Jeff Crowell (on left) presented a cheque for $ 24,000 to the Nova Scotia Director for the Lions Foundation of Canada, Dave Manning, to sponsor the training of two Autism Assistance dogs.
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By Richard Bell
Gold companies are stumbling over themselves staking claims across vast swathes of central Nova Scotia. The gold at stake is disseminated gold, in particles largely invisible to the naked eye. But by using open-pit mining and a water/cyanide-based extraction process, companies can make big profits with gold selling at over $1,000 per ounce, provided that the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency approves all the proposed mines, and no significant local opposition develops.
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By Richard Bell
In a surprise visit to the Eastern Shore on Wednesday, May 8, Jonathan Wilkinson, the current Minister of Fisheries, Oceans, and the Canadian Coast Guard, indicated that he was seriously considering a radical change in DFO’s entire approach to the hotly contested Eastern Shore Islands Marine Protected Area (ESI-MPA): co-management with communities. He noted several times during the course of the 90-minute meeting that the entire ESI-MPA proposal might never happen.
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Letter to the Editor: RCMP Arrest
The treatment of John Perkins by the RCMP and Atlantic Gold’s security thug at a community meeting in Sherbrooke on May 24th was appalling Most in attendance were shocked and astonished by the unnecessary use of force and the RCMP’s role in supporting the Company in its’ efforts to rid the meeting of anyone questioning Atlantic Gold’s plans for the area
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[Editor’s Note: On April 4, the HRM Harbour East Marine Drive Community Council (HEMDC) voted unanimously to accept an HRM staff report recommending against rezoning a parcel of land along Highway 7 in Porters Lake to use as a construction & demolition (C&D) processing site. But Lawrence Bellefontaine’s Kiann Management Ltd. then appealed this decision to the Utility and Review Board (URB). Use the search engine on the Cooperator website for articles on this long struggle, which began in 2015. Just click on the looking glass in the upper right corner.]
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Business owners in the proposed Porters Lake Business Improvement District (BID) will be voting this month on whether to create the BID. There will be a public information meeting for these business owners on Wednesday, June 12th at 6:30pm at the Lake & Shore Community Centre. Every property owner and every business owner gets a single vote; voting is by secret ballot, and ballots are due by Friday, June 21st. The proposal must get 50%+1 in order to go into effect.
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By Richard Bell
Bits and pieces of the Department of Education’s new school siting policy are finally beginning to dribble into view, more than a year after Minister Zach Churchill announced that the province would be building a replacement for Eastern Shore District High School.
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By Richard Bell
As the June issue of the Cooperator was heading to the printers, we got word that an RCMP officer had violently arrested a local environmentalist who was attending a public meeting that Atlantic Gold had called in Sherbrooke on Thursday, May 23 to do a presentation on the disposal of mine tailings, the massive amounts of material left over after gold has been extracted from the pulverized rock. The failure of tailings dams at mining sites around the world has been the cause of massive environmental damage and the deaths of people living downstream from the tailings dams.
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By Mona Bordage
People in the Gaetz Brook area might have noticed recent changes on the path behind the Legion. Shore Active Transportation Association (SATA) Trails volunteers have been out in force raking and clearing brush along the Gaetz Brook Greenway despite cold rainy spring weather. Under a letter of authority from the Department of Natural Resources, SATA is restoring the rail bed through Gaetz Brook to be used as an “active transportation” (AT) trail, a trail that will be open to bikers and walkers, but closed to motorized vehicles. (See “Overflow Crowd at ATV Meeting” in this issue for a different perspective.)
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