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Minister Rankin letter to Sydnee Lynn

Sydnee Lynn started the Facebook group, Save Little Harbour/Owls Head from Becoming a Golf Course. She posted the following letter from Lands and Forest Minister Iain Rankin on this Facebook page. Key quote: "It is government’s role to balance the need to protect land with the need to allow economic activity in an area." Dear Ms. McKay: I am responding to your letter of January 12, 2020 regarding Crown lands located at Little Harbour, Nova Scotia, also referred to as Owl’s Head.

January 14, 2020

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MLA Kevin Murphy on Delisting Owls Head

By Richard Bell In a January 3 2020 email to the Cooperator, MLA Kevin Murphy said that he first heard about the golf courses about two years, and that he had had two phone calls from the golf course lobbyist, Michael Samson. He wrote that he had not talked about the project with any other lobbyists, nor had he discussed the project with anyone from the Owls Head community (within 50 miles of Owls Head.)

January 14, 2020

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Owls Head Delisting Threatens Crown Lands Across Province

[Editor's Note: The Cooperator is launching a web page dedicated to the Owls Head controversy. We will be posting articles from the Cooperator, and links to government documents, news stories from other media, and material from the Save Little Harbour/Owls Head From Becoming A Golf Course. This page already has links to interviews with exclusive interviews with MP Sean Fraser, MLA Kevin Murphy, the NDP's Gary Burrilll, and the PC's environment critic, Brad Johns. If you know of information that should be included, email to: info@easternshorecooperator.ca.] By Richard Bell The revelation that the province’s Department of Lands and Forests has been secretly planning to sell Crown land on Owls Head to a wealthy American couple who own Lighthouse Links Development Company to build as many as three golf courses has stunned Nova Scotians.

January 14, 2020

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MP Sean Fraser on Owls Head Delisting

By Richard Bell The Cooperator spoke with MP Sean Fraser about the provincial decision to make Owls Head available for sale. Fraser was just returning to his political duties after stepping back to deal with the tragic loss of his infant daughter.

January 14, 2020

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PC's Brad Johns on Owls Head

By Richard Bell In a phone interview with the Cooperator, Brad Johns, Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party critic for the environment, was blunt about the province’s decision to delist Owls Head Provincial Park and sell the land to a golf-course developer: “The fix is already in."

January 14, 2020

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Minister Endorses Non-Motorized Trail

[Note: If this image is on its side, our editor is wrestling with a software program to give this photo a turn. It won't turn, and it won't go away either. We're waiting for a call from our vendor. In the meantime, we apologize for the inconvenience.] By Richard Bell The Gaetz Brook Greenway moved a step closer to opening this spring as an Active Transportation trail with Lands and Forest Minister Iain Rankin’s December 19, 2019 Letter of Restriction to the SATA Trails Society. This Letter of Restriction confirms the commitment of the Ministry to keeping most motorized vehicles off the trail:

December 28, 2019

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Lake Echo Society Meeting Notice

In a notice of a special meeting on Thursday, December 5 at 7:00 pm, The Lake Echo Community Recreation Society has issued a stark request for new volunteers: “To keep the Centre alive, we need help. And, we need it by the end of December.”[emphasis in original] Volunteers run the Community Centre, which provides the community with a wealth of programs and services. And like many volunteer-run organizations, there comes a time when continuing to operate depends on recruiting more volunteers. Without more volunteers, the Society will have to consider whether or not it can continue to operate. Here is the Society's notice:

December 02, 2019

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Living Chain Around St. Anselm’s

The parishioners of St Anselm’s Church in West Chezzetcook are still working hard to re-open their church. The church was closed to parishioners on November 11, 2018 due to the presence of nontoxic mold.

November 26, 2019

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Small Farming in the 21st Century

By Richard Bell There was a respectful HRM Planning public information hearing on November 18 at the Old School in Musquodoboit Harbour on Bianca and Pierre-Luc Sevigny’s request for a Development Agreement for “intensive agricultural use” on their newly acquired 7.58 plot (PID #41032590) on West Petpeswick Road in Musquodoboit Harbour. The hearing was largely a replay of an exchange that had been taking place on Facebook since word of the request first got out.

November 26, 2019

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TIR Refuses Help for Dangerous Intersection

By Richard Bell HRM and the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal (TIR) have spent tens of millions of dollars between the construction of the William Porter Connector Road, and Porters Lake Elementary School.

November 26, 2019

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