Today, the Province of Nova Scotia announced plans to take full control of planning and development in Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM). By announcing unprecedented changes to the Halifax Charter and the Housing in the Halifax Regional Municipality Act – the same legislation that created the Executive Panel on Housing – the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, John Lohr, now has absolute power and discretion over all planning and development in Halifax.
Politics & Policy
The Ecology Action Centre is pleased to see comprehensive, clear reporting in the Department of Environment and Climate Change’s 2023 progress report. We appreciate that progress on each goal in the Environmental Goals and Climate Change Reduction Act and Nova Scotia’s Climate Plan has been addressed in this report.
The Ecology Action Centre is pleased with the release of Canada’s National Adaptation Strategy.
The Ecology Action Centre is pleased that the provincial government has gone back to the negotiating table to reach a balanced deal on the Atlantic Loop with the federal government. Nova Scotia needs to get off coal as soon as possible, and the 2030 deadline that the province has committed to is drawing ever closer.