N.S. moves forward with plan to force municipalities to protect coastlines

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The Tories privation municipalities to draught their ain coastal extortion bylaws and are offering a blueprint connected however they tin support the province's 13,000 kilometres of coastline.

Tories privation the province's municipalities to draught their ain bylaws

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 15, 2025 12:51 PM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

A presumption of a harbour from a cliff showing bluish entity and bluish h2o successful the region with breached up chunks of achromatic crystal successful the foreground.

The Nova Scotia authorities is offering municipalities a blueprint connected however they tin support the province's 13,000 kilometres of coastline.

Environment Minister Tim Halman on Tuesday announced a caller website nexus with examples of bylaws and different regulations municipalities tin usage to forestall coastal erosion.

It's a arguable measurement — the Progressive Conservatives person refused to enactment into unit a 2019 instrumentality adopted by the erstwhile Liberal authorities that would person required the provincial authorities to negociate coastal protection.

Halman besides announced much than $1.3 cardinal for the Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities to prosecute a clime alteration argumentation analyst and assistance its 49 members make their ain bylaws.

The Progressive Conservatives promised to connection examples of bylaws erstwhile they announced their coastal extortion strategy successful February 2024 and confirmed they would not proclaim the Liberals' 2019 Coastal Protection Act.

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