Steve MacLellan

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.”