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Highway 113 proposal neither accepted nor rejected

November 12, 2004

Kerry Morash, Minister of Environment and Labour, has referred the Highway 113 environmental assessment application to a special focus report.

What this means is that the fate of Highway 113 and the magnificent Blue Mountain - Birch Cove Lakes ecological hotspot has been essentially put-off for up to one year.

Although we welcome this last minute stay-of-execution, what's really needed is for the Minister of Environment and Labour to stand-up for this important wilderness area and to put an end to this ill-conceived highway project once and for all.

The 10km long, $30 million highway proposal will pass through seven wetland areas and a stand of native red spruce forest, fragment known habitat for the endangered mainland moose, and cleave-off Halifax's highest point (Blue Mountain summit).

It will also sever the popular Blue Mountain hiking trail and open-up this last piece of wilderness land near Halifax to suburban sprawl.

• Click here for more information on Blue Mountain - Birch Cove Lakes
• Click here to see a map of the proposed new highway. (Source: NS Department of Transportation and Public Works, June 2004)

Download and print the petition to save this threatened area:

What you can do.

Write the Minister of Environment and Labour and ask for the public lands of the Blue Mountain - Birch Cove Lakes area to be established as a protected wilderness area. Send a copy to the Premier.

E-mail: morashkg@gov.ns.ca

Phone: 902.424.6600
Fax: 902.424.7648
E-mail: premier@gov.ns.ca

Stay informed! Get involved! For more information and news of developments, e-mail birchcovelakes@yahoo.ca.

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