Google Earth Images June 10, 2021 and Oct 16, 2024 showing loss of forest on slope bordering wetland.
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View: Zebedee files legal action against Eisner Cove Wetland development project by By Francis Campbell for Saltwire/Chronicle Herald Aug 1, 2025
News Release by Bill Zebedee July 31, 2025:
PRIVATE PROSECUTION CASE FILED AGAINST CLAYTON DEVELOPMENTS, DARTMOUTH
At an August 1, 2025 press conference at South End Baptist Church, [60 Hastings Driven Dartmouth, Bill Zebedee will announce he has filed a private prosecutive case against The Mount Hope Development Limited Partnership.
“It is unfortunate,” said Zebedee, “I must take this step. It’s the government’s responsibility to enforce the Nova Scotia Environment Act. It shouldn’t be up to a private citizen, to ensure the laws of this province are being enforced.”
Zebedee, who has been calling for a halt to a development at Eisner Cove Wetland, in Dartmouth, since 2020, with the assistance of Jamie Simpson, of Juniper Law, filed the suit after nine complaints about siltation polluting the watercourse.
“Nine complaints,” said Zebedee, “I would have thought, after the first, the Department of Environment and Climate Change (ECC) would have enforced the Environment Act. Especially when the first investigator from ECC said, in their notes, the wetland was ‘inundated’ with siltation. However, no fines or charges have been laid, after nine complaints, and almost two years.”
Global News Video (Aug 1). “Clayton Developments Ltd. did not respond to Global News request for comment”
Zebedee, President of Protect Eisner Cove Wetland, said the group had long warned ECC Minister Tim Halman, and the developer, by removing the 50 acres of forest, and the associated overburden, that contaminants would enter the wetland.
“Numerous warnings, and nothing,” said Zebedee. “Instead, they based their decisions on reports by consultants, hired by Clayton Developments. Those same consultants who couldn’t even get the direction of storm water flow correct.”
On June 27, 2025, Zebedee, in hopes ECC would enforce Sections 67(1), and 158(e), of the Environment Act, sent a letter of intent to file a private prosecution case.
“After much consideration I took this unfortunate step. I wish I didn’t have to, but the inactions of ECC and the Minister, and the continued destruction of the wetland, has left me with no choice.”
Also view:
– We Spoke To Concerned Resident Bill Zebedee About A Concerning Environmental Issue Stemming From The Development Of Eisner Cove, Article with photos, Apr 27, 2025 in Waterfront Media
– Case 23820: Southdale Future Growth Node Planning Process
Page on www.shapeyourcityhalifax.ca, last updated Jan 18, 2023; includes link to Public Comment Period Summary Case 23820: Southdale Future Growth Node
– Protect Eisner Cove Wetland
Website | Facebook Page
– ProtectEisnerWetland
YouTube channel
– NS Wild Flora Society: Eisner’s Cove Wetland
Set of pages with maps, photos, reports on field trips etc
– Clayton Developments: Mount Hope Village