Ray Plourde, the wilderness co-ordinator for the Halifax-based Ecology Action Centre, is dead set against government funding this kind of survey work.
“That’s the job of industry, it’s not the job of taxpayers,” he said.
“It is not the responsibility of Nova Scotia taxpayers, in a province that can’t afford to pay its doctors, its teachers and its nurses, and keep its basic services running at an adequate level to give millions of dollars to the mining industry to develop mines that the public may or may not even want.” #nspoli