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Tip: Your message to SUST-MAR must be html-free. So, BEFORE you hit SEND, please go to your "Format" pull-down menu and select "Plain text." Thanks! ____________________________________________________________________________ http://pei.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=pe_land20040908 Here we go again. When the dunes on the Greenwich Peninsula were added to the PEI National Park in 1998, predatory developers moved in. Environment and conservation groups were able to thwart one resort development by Tim Banks' APM Group but were unsuccessful in preventing a resort/golf course development that now adjoins the park. Would-be developers Phil Ferraro and Nancy Willis have been trying for several years to attract investors to a piece of shorefront land adjoining the eastern edge of the park. The land was purchased in 1999 with money loaned to them by Nova Scotians for the purpose of building a resort. Anne B. Lambert and Thomas G. Welch of Chester, NS loaned Ferraro and Willis $385,532.18 which includes the entire purchase price of the 163 acres. Ferraro and Willis were granted permission by the Province to buy the land on condition that it was not allowed to be subdivided. But these two failed to get the resort off the ground (the land is surrounded by marshes and heavily infested with mosquitoes for one thing) and applied to the Province to set aside the purchase conditions. The Province holds a collateral mortgage on the land for an undisclosed amount loaned to them by the taxpayers of PEI . The Premier and his council recently negated the original conditions of purchase and gave permission for the land to be subdivided Ferraro and Willis say they plan to sub-divide 40 lots and develop a resort. Earth Action is opposed to this resort development and has been supported by the Canadian Nature Federation. Greenwich is becoming encircled and enclosed by resort developments, a sure recipe for ecological disaster within the park. The above is a link to a story on this issue which ran today on CBC Radio in PEI. Contact Earth Action for information on how you can help stop the assault on Greenwich, one of PEI's last bits of wildland. ================= Subscribe to Earth Action's Weekly Bulletin (it's free). Send an email to <majordomo@flora.org> with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe earth-action ***************** Sharon Labchuk Earth Action Breadalbane RR#2 Prince Edward Island Canada C0A 1E0 phone 902-621-0719 slabchuk@isn.net =============== ____________________________________________________________________________ Did a friend forward this to you? Join sust-mar yourself! Just send 'subscribe sust-mar' to mailto:majordomo@chebucto.ca
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