Cape LaHave Island…Have your say

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Recently the MODL Council passed a motion to work with the Nova Scotia Nature Trust on creating a conservation easement for Cape LaHave Island to ensure that this special place is conserved through permanent, legal protection for current and future generations. Part of this project is public engagement, MODL is seeking your input into this important process. The decisions made about this beautiful and ecologically important piece of our community can last for generations to come so please take a moment and join the engagement process. Have your say at Engage MODL (https://engage.modl.ca/cape-lahave-island ) The consultation process will be administered […]

Cermaq update

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The Nova Scotia government has granted Cermaq, the multi-national firm owned by Mitsubishi, “options to lease” six sites along the coast of Nova Scotia for open pen salmon farms. Visitors to their upbeat website are greeted by images and videos of smiling employees who, the website says more than once, are raising “happy fish” destined to become “Mother Nature’s super food”. They mention their open pen fish farms in Norway and on the West Cost of Canada, but neglect to say that Norway prohibits new open pen fish farms and that our own federal government promises, in a wishy-washy sort […]

Cermaq

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More and more countries are prohibiting open pen fish farms because they are so destructive to the environment. The Friends of Crescent Beach Green Bay and Area Society is taking action to keep open pen fish farms out of Nova Scotian waters. The following is the content of the mail out which was sent to our members   March 20, 2020 Dear Residents Fish farmed in pens open to the sea are diseased fish. Disease and infestation with parasites like sea lice cannot be avoided when 50,000 fish are crowded into a two acre area. In order to maintain a semblance […]

COVID 19 Update March 23 2020

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From https://parks.novascotia.ca/content/current-advisories March 22, 2020 Nova Scotia Parks would like to inform the public that provincial parks, beaches and trails within provincial parks are currently closed to all visitors. Parking at provincial parks is prohibited. Any vehicles found in violation will be ticketed and towed. Under the Health Protection Act the province and local authorities will be enforcing social distancing and self isolation guidelines. For the most up-to-date information on COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, visit novascotia.ca/coronavirus