Protecting HRM waterways
The main story is all about efforts to protect HRM's waterways and on the back (of the physical paper) explains how the CAP makes property taxes more expensive.
Activist and councillor want water regulations
by Antonia Zwissler
Bill Zebedee is worried about the dangers of building housing too close to Eisner Cove Wetland in Dartmouth. He’s president of the Protect Eisner Cove Wetland Society. The wetland is next to his home, and he says it’s become silty since Mount Hope Development Limited Partnership started building nearby.
After numerous fruitless appeals to the province to enforce their Environment Act, Zebedee has been working to hold Mount Hope responsible himself. The process is called a private prosecution, and Nova Scotia has never seen one under the Environment Act.
Despite being wrapped up in historic legal proceedings, Bill Zebedee is keeping up with city council.
On Tuesday, August 25 council voted to write to the province to barter for coastline protection from development.
“We need to wake up to the fact that our province is under threat, and we need to take steps to be able to protect that,” said Zebedee in an interview with Grand Parade. He’s worried about the dangers of building housing too close to the coast.
“I think that provincial [action] would have always been everybody’s first choice,” said District 13 councillor Nancy Hartling. “But here we are, so let’s do our due diligence as municipalities and enact what we can.”
