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If Tim Houston’s government thought opposition to their abandonment of the Coastal Protection Act would just go away, they should think again.This week a group of coastal advocates descended on Province House to rally in front of news cameras and reporters. They are telling the government to take responsibility for protecting the 13,000 kilometres of shoreline in the province.In March they formed a Facebook group called NS Coastal Protection Act Now! that has almost 1,000 members.
They also created an interactive map that allows users to zoom in and show how coastal property will look in the year 2100, but it is incomplete and not user-friendly for people who are not digitally savvy.Members of the crowd down at Province House raised signs, chanted and made speeches demanding that the province take control of coastal development. Many were landowners who have witnessed the erosion of their properties and the loss of beaches during storms.
I daresay the province knew this when they dropped the act. By under-resourcing coastal protection efforts, they are protecting independent property owners who do not want the government telling them what they can and can’t do with their land. This coastal deterioration is also helped along by unregulated development and the construction of armour walls, which temporarily protect shorelines until another storm comes along and wrecks the walls, throwing boulders all over beaches and shorelines and contributing to further erosion.
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