OK. Who authorized this? When were the public consultations?
There are at least three locations in the harbour where land has been created in the harbour for greedy housing projects.
This is Halifax. We have a harbour. Not much else. Why in God’s name are we letting people fill it in? I thought that up to six feet from the high tide line was public land. I also suspect a contamination/remediation cover-up is underway in Dartmouth Cove. Just watch… Tuft’s cove will be next – but remember the bridges?
Go look at the harbour and basin at six am on a calm day. Put yourself in a canoe in your mind. Now try to imagine relacing just one ounce of that water with fill.
I don’t think they can just do this. —Native Spirit
This article appears in Jul 8-14, 2010.
Are you nuts? I’d never canoe in the harbour.
Never canoe…why not ?
I’ve done it as well as kayaked in it. We used to canoe over to McNabs island when we were teenagers & camp out. you could lauch from Eastern Passage, or down by the Autoport near Shearwater, wasn’t far.
What I want to know is who in the fuck can afford these places?!?
I think the world has bigger problems than a few feet of infilled harbour.
who the fuck would be nutds enough to move there anyhow. what with all the floating shit and smell. even without the smell, the fucking rats are the size of small dogs, and run across your property all the time. when i worked at purdys wharf, fucking things used to come right in the loading bays, had to shoot them with my ,22 cal pistol (silenced, of course),to get rid of the fucking disgusting bastards. i used to get about 10 or so every night. and no one was the wiser, til now.
Use your brain. By speaking out against these developments, YOU’re the one harming the environment. I assume you’re talking about two developments that have been in the news lately: King’s Wharf (the old Dartmouth Marine Slips), and the development on the Bedford Highway. The city is growing — people will need to be housed somewhere. You have a choice between these denser developments on repurposed, post-industrial land, or untouched wilderness on the periphery of the city. Also, both sites are on underused railway right-of-way which much easily be used as transit corridors as transit becomes more financially viable in the area due to…the increased population density! Jeez, if people like you ran the city everyone’d be moving into mammoth homes in Hammonds Plains or Cole Harbour, driving to work, and filling our lakes with even more fertilizer and pesticide.
Just keep it deep enough and wide enough for visiting aircraft carriers. Mmmm. – love me dem flat-tops.
“I don’t think they can just do this.”
Which is why they get permits. So yes they can.
This sounds like what Oldhand was talking about in a bitch last week…I assume this is him? Sounds like him. I’m sure he’ll spend all of next week calling up various government agencies and bothering people so he can come on here and say that no one had any answers; it’s yet another conspiracy he’s uncovered!
Pass the tinfoil Mel – protective headgear for all.
Is this McGayle resurrected – won’t be long before we hear about the W5 forms – conspiracy theory? door on the left.
I’m with the bitcher. Who the hell is moving into these ridiculous residential developments and where the hell do they work? Last time I checked, Halifax still had plenty of residential space, low unemployment (meaning fewer jobs available), and one of the highest costs of living. Since everything is becoming more and more unattainable, let us at least have our harbour.
Halifox10, the new developments in Dartmouth and Bedford both maintain a continuous public boardwalk with parks and shops. Prior to these developments the sites were closed industrial sites (still are really, the buildings are just gone)
I wish I saw half the outrage that I see here directed at suburban developments that ACTUALLY harm the environment. Places like the new “Kingwood North” subdivision in Hammonds Plains, where roads servicing huge, wasteful McMansions on oversized lots have been stabbed into untouched lakeland and where transit will never be viable, and people will always drive 10’s of kilometres to work (and the shops).
What a cool idea! Dartmouth could demolish all the ugly housing (Highfield Park and Eastern Passage too), bulldoze it all into the harbour, and it would be just enough to connect Halifax and Dartmouth without a third bridge!
Okay seriously, everything is bad for the environment. Shut up! You want to know the absolute best thing for the Earth would be? If everyone just killed themselves. We would turn into fertilizer and some animals could have a snack. There would be no more pollution and cars and whatever else hippies don’t like. So until you kill yourself off for the better of this planet, shut up! Your existence is what’s bad for the environment, I don’t care how much you walk or if you take the bus or if you have your own garden or go out of your way to buy “organic” foods!
PS: I realize I used a run-on sentence; don’t get all crazy ;D.
you’re pretty darn smart for a young’un melectric. rawk
…and I love run-on sentences, because they are so damned destructive to the environment. >; )
Thanks PG ;). Meow. heh.
Run on, ranting, bitching sentences are sexy. Especially when it’s a tirade against the hippies.
I always have to do the gut-check when using the “H” word. After all, l’objet de mon vitriol might just be a regular lazy, dirty, self-righteous slob. Calling him or her a hippie would be excessive mean-spiritedness. Like using nukes to stop piracy in the Red Sea.
… Or nuking oil spills.
Calvin’s got it right. We need to have these high density developments. You know, one of the “greenest” cities in Canada, Victoria, has nearly 4 times the density we do? Also, many of these high density projects have the capability of being more environmentally conscious than an empty lot of land.
During the 50’s and 60’s both the Americans and the Soviets considered using atomic bombs to facilitate mega-construction projects in undeveloped areas. They take a lot of stick for some of silly-ass things they did,(Bikini Atoll, The Aral Sea, using the Arctic Ocean to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and faulty naval reactors) but thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster that one never left the drawing board.
Yeah, I had heard that. There wasn’t anything the Yanks or the Ruskies wouldn’t nuke in those days. A good thing is that the Tsar Bomba didn’t make it past that one test.
Highfield park into a causeway! Brilliant idea sebastian, I love it! Reminds me of General John Cabot Trail kind of.
Nukes are passe guys. Antimatter weapons are the future. One good antimatter bomb can solve all the environmental problems in one shot! Or vaporise an incoming asteroid… etc. etc.
The harbour is kind of gross and smelly, but it is our harbour I guess. I wonder if these developers have taken sea level rises into account? Meh, perhaps the buildings won’t last that long.