{"id":867,"date":"2011-10-18T15:55:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T18:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/?p=867"},"modified":"2011-10-18T15:55:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T18:55:47","slug":"coastal-coalition-welcomes-coastal-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"Coastal Coalition welcomes Coastal Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This is a press release on behalf of the Coastal Coalition of which TREPA is a member.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>October 13th<\/p>\n<p><strong>2011 Coastal Strategy a \u201cGood Start\u201d\u201d; now let\u2019s get moving on an Act Halifax<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Coastal Coalition of Nova Scotia (CCNS) welcomes the draft Coastal Strategy launched by the province on Thursday and considers it an important step towards a provincial Coastal Act. \u201cThe CCNS has supported the coastal strategy since the process began\u201d says Jennifer Graham, Coalition spokesperson and Coastal Coordinator at the Ecology Action Centre, \u201cWe\u2019re really pleased to see governance as a priority issue. After all, how can we hope to protect our coast and coastal communities if we don\u2019t put in place a fair, transparent, straightforward, and accountable system of consistently applied rules and regulations for all coastal activities?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">CCNS is also pleased with many of the goals identified in the strategy, including establishing coastal development standards and setting targets for cleaning up polluted coastal areas. However, the Coalition believes these recommendations need to be tied to firm commitments for implementation with associated timelines and resources. \u201cWe\u2019ve been very clear that we consider a strategy to be just that \u2013 a strategy. It\u2019s 2011, and we need to see the kinds of coastal legislation, planning, and enforcement that will actually fix the problems along the coast. We want to see the province commit to a Coastal Act\u201d says Graham.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Coalition is also disappointed the Strategy limits itself to 6 isolated coastal issues plus governance. \u201cWhat about aquaculture?\u201d asks Graham, \u201cShouldn\u2019t the same commitment to developing consistent standards, filling information gaps, and finding a meaningful role for communities apply to all coastal activities, including aquaculture?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">CCNS is committed to working with the provincial and municipal governments to further advance sustainable coastal development and is urging all Nova Scotians who care about the coast and its future to share their views with the provincial government on-line at the website below. CCNS is a network of 50 community and environmental organizations from around the Province. <a href=\"http:\/\/ccns.chebucto.org\/\">http:\/\/ccns.chebucto.org\/ <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a press release on behalf of the Coastal Coalition of which TREPA is a member. October 13th 2011 Coastal Strategy a \u201cGood Start\u201d\u201d; now let\u2019s get moving on an Act Halifax The Coastal Coalition of Nova Scotia (CCNS) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/?p=867\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coastal-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trepa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}