e-3125 Environment
Petition to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change
Whereas:
The Windsor Causeway in Nova Scotia was constructed in 1968 without proper fish passage; to this day it impedes the migrations of many fishes, but most importantly the Endangered Inner Bay of Fundy Atlantic Salmon and the impacts on fish habitat;
The Province of Nova Scotia is currently twinning Hwy. 101 at the causeway site, and construction plans call for a 'test' aboiteau to be built near the remaining channel of the Avon River;
The EA study, prepared in 2017 by N.S. Transportation, Infrastructure and Renewal (TIR) for crossing the Avon River, inadequately explores or explains all the relevant options for fish passage and flood control, or options for bridges and free-tidal-flow;
Options for dykes and a 'partial opening' at the causeway, with bridges and actual costs/benefits need to be clearly outlined in the EA study; and
The lack of comprehensiveness in the aforementioned EA extends to the limits placed on the study area – decidedly only concerned with the lands, waters and stakeholders immediately upstream of the causeway, while impacts to the adjacent marine-side of the causeway are not given consideration.
We, the undersigned, Citizens of Canada, call upon the Minister of Environment and Climate Change to deny the approval of the request of the Province of Nova Scotia to build an aboiteau at the Avon River until a full and proper EA study has been completed and addresses all of these shortfalls.
Whereas:
The Windsor Causeway in Nova Scotia was constructed in 1968 without proper fish passage; to this day it impedes the migrations of many fishes, but most importantly the Endangered Inner Bay of Fundy Atlantic Salmon and the impacts on fish habitat;
The Province of Nova Scotia is currently twinning Hwy. 101 at the causeway site, and construction plans call for a 'test' aboiteau to be built near the remaining channel of the Avon River;
The EA study, prepared in 2017 by N.S. Transportation, Infrastructure and Renewal (TIR) for crossing the Avon River, inadequately explores or explains all the relevant options for fish passage and flood control, or options for bridges and free-tidal-flow;
Options for dykes and a 'partial opening' at the causeway, with bridges and actual costs/benefits need to be clearly outlined in the EA study; and
The lack of comprehensiveness in the aforementioned EA extends to the limits placed on the study area – decidedly only concerned with the lands, waters and stakeholders immediately upstream of the causeway, while impacts to the adjacent marine-side of the causeway are not given consideration.
We, the undersigned, Citizens of Canada, call upon the Minister of Environment and Climate Change to deny the approval of the request of the Province of Nova Scotia to build an aboiteau at the Avon River until a full and proper EA study has been completed and addresses all of these shortfalls.