Residents prepared for a fight as golf course developer eyes Cape Breton park
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Some in Cape Breton are angry and preparing to fight as a nearby golf course developer eyes the windswept beaches of West Mabou Beach Provincial Park.
Some in Cape Breton are angry and preparing to fight as a nearby golf course developer eyes the windswept beaches of West Mabou Beach Provincial Park.
Nadine Hunt was part of two previous campaigns to stop the Cabot golf company from expanding into the park on the west coast of Cape Breton Island.
This time is worse, Hunt said in a recent interview.
Now, the provincial government seems open to the expansion, she said. The company has even made a website for the project.
“We feel powerless,” Hunt said, the sable-coloured beach stretching out behind her. “People have said, ‘We’ll be in front of the bulldozers.’ Many, many people have said that. It’s terrible if it’s going to have to come to that.”
West Mabou Beach Provincial Park encompasses about 2.8 square kilometres of sand dunes and beaches along the shore of the Northumberland Strait, in Mabou, Cape Breton. The park is home to more than a dozen rare and endangered species, including the piping plover, a tiny shorebird that nests in the sand.
It is the only known spot in the Maritimes to find the upswept moonwort, a fern whose thick leaves curl upward in clusters of finger-like lobes.
The park attracts tourists and locals, Hunt said. On Friday, a couple read books in lawn chairs they had set up in the sand. Other visitors brought dogs who swam in the ocean and chased thrown pieces of driftwood.
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