Premier Stephen McNeil said he’s received ‘a lot of letters’ from people opposed to the potential sale but he maintained that the land has never been under legal protection
The Nova Scotia government continues to entertain the idea of selling a section of rugged Crown-owned land along the Eastern Shore to private developers, despite growing public opposition.
The premier has been the target of a letter-writing campaign by opponents of a plan to build as many as three golf courses on a 285-hectare area of coastal barrens and wetlands known as Owls Head.Last March, the land was quietly removed from a government list of territory awaiting legal protection but that decision only came to light in December following a CBC report.
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