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2021-04-01
Nova Scotians Seek Judicial Review of the Owls Head De-Listing
April 1, 2021 Public litigants make the case that the Government of Nova Scotia should have consulted the public before removing Owls Head Park from the province’s Parks Program and entering into agreement to sell it to land developer Today, Justice Christa Brothers of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia will hear arguments in a judicial review of the Minister of Lands and Forestry’s decisions to de-list Owls Head Provincial Park from the Our Parks and Protected Areas Plan and to enter into an agreement to sell the land to a private company, Lighthouse Links, for development into a golf resort. The applicants, Robert Bancroft and the Eastern Shore Forest Watch Association, have argued that the province should have consulted the public before de-listing Owls Head. The park, while not legally designated under legislation, had long been thought to be a park. Additionally, it has been managed by the Department as a park for many years under its Parks Program. “For forty years the people of Nova Scotia have trusted successive governments which assured us that Owl's Head was protected as a Provincial Park. Governments must be required to tell the truth about public land, and to consult the public when such…
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