No golf course development at West Mabou Beach!!

photo credit: Alain Belliveau

Your help is urgently needed to save West Mabou Beach Provincial Park.

Once again, this ecologically-significant coastal park is being threatened by a proposed golf course development.

If this development is allowed to proceed, it will create a terrible precedent that will threaten all other parks and protected areas in Nova Scotia.

West Mabou Beach Provincial Park is a legally-established protected area that contains rare ecosystems and numerous species-at-risk, including the endangered piping plover which nests on the beach.

Very little of Nova Scotia’s coastline is publicly-owned, and even less is legally-protected. West Mabou Beach is an important park within the provincial system of protected areas.

Please take a few moments to send a letter to Premier Tim Houston urging him to reject this golf course development. Your letter will be copied to the Minister of Natural Resources and Renewables, and the Minister of Environment and Climate Change.

The best letters are short and personal. Please consider inserting a few sentences of your own into the letter below. Letters can also be emailed directly to [email protected].

Thank you.

Premier

Tim

Houston

Government of Nova Scotia

Dear Premier Houston:

Please don’t allow a golf course development at West Mabou Beach Provincial Park.

This is not a suitable location for this endeavour.

West Mabou Beach Provincial Park contains important ecosystems, such as extensive dunes and coastal wetlands. It also supports numerous rare species, including the endangered piping plover.

Nova Scotia’s parks and protected areas are important places for nature conservation. Large private developments, such as what’s proposed for West Mabou Beach Provincial Park, have no place in our public protected areas.

Approving such a development will also set a terrible precedent. By even entertaining this project, you are creating a very slippery slope that threatens all other parks and protected areas in Nova Scotia.

Please do the right thing and REJECT this inappropriate development proposal at West Mabou Beach Provincial Park without any further delays.

I look forward to hearing back from you.

Sincerely,

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Cc: Nova Scotia Minister of Environment and Climate Change
      Nova Scotia Minister of Natural Resources and Renewables