In the final minutes of the fall legislative sitting, Environment Minister Steven Myers proclaimed a moratorium on new shorefront development. This was the ...
Boyd Allen, part of the Coalition for the Protection of P.E.I. Lands, says government needs to be clearer on what is covered by a moratorium on shorefront development announced as the P.E.I. legislature was winding down in the fall. SaltWire Network file - Alison Jenkins • The GuardianEnvironment Minister Steven Myers proclaimed a moratorium on new shorefront development.
Minister Myers has not provided a clear description of this moratorium beyond a commitment to speak with “experts” and create a shorefront development policy which will be brought to the spring legislature.P.E.I. minister commits to buffer zone policy upgrade after Point Deroche controversy There are critical questions arising from the moratorium itself. Is there a proposed timeline attached to it? What conditions will have to be met to warrant the lifting of this moratorium?
Is it possible that this moratorium could be just an instrument arising from this ethical vacuum? Could this moratorium be nothing more than the government’s method of deflecting a wave of justifiable criticism as we roll into an election year? Will the end result be a cobbled together “working policy,” deriving its authority through ministerial discretion? We can’t tolerate a repackaging of the status quo.
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