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From a release<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n COLCHESTER COUNTY:<\/strong> Two quarries are expanding to support Nova Scotia\u2019s growth, jobs and infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The quarries in Kemptown, Colchester County, and Seabrook, Digby County provide stone, gravel and other materials needed to build roads and highways, clean energy projects, housing and other infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aggregate, which is sourced from quarries, was added to the list of the province\u2019s strategic minerals on May 14. \u201cThese two approvals have stringent terms and conditions to protect the environment and human health, while allowing sustainable and necessary development to take place for the benefit of all Nova Scotians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″] [adrotate banner=”218″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”192″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”237″] [adrotate banner=”238″] From a release COLCHESTER COUNTY: Two quarries are expanding to support Nova Scotia\u2019s growth, jobs and infrastructure. The quarries in Kemptown, Colchester County, and Seabrook, Digby County provide stone, gravel and other materials needed to build roads and highways, clean energy projects, housing and other infrastructure projects. Aggregate, which is sourced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[1258,1548,7873,48,8396,1404],"class_list":["post-55669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-colchester-county","tag-digby","tag-minerals","tag-n-s","tag-quarry","tag-tim-halman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cQuarries provide the building blocks for all of the infrastructure Nova Scotians depend on, from roads and highways, homes and other buildings, to hospitals and schools,\u201d said Timothy Halman, Minister of Environment and Climate Change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
All requests for environmental assessment include consultation with the public and the Mi\u2019kmaq before decisions are made. Consultation input informs the terms and conditions of approval.
The expansions at both locations have environmental assessment approvals that include strong terms and conditions to protect the environment and human health.
Quick Facts<\/strong>:
– the Department of Public Works uses 2.5 million tonnes of gravel and 750,000 tonnes of asphalt, on average per year, to make sure Nova Scotians have safe, modern roads
– Chapman Bros. Construction Ltd.\u2019s quarry expansion in Kemptown received environmental assessment approval on May 22; the approval has 33 terms and conditions, including creating a community liaison committee \u2013 so residents can bring questions or concerns directly to the quarry owner \u2013 before any expansion work begins
– Nova Construction Co. Ltd.\u2019s quarry expansion in Seabrook received environmental assessment approval on May 7; the approval has 33 terms and conditions
– an environmental assessment is a planning tool that requires companies to identify the possible environmental impacts of their project along with a plan to mitigate them; projects then typically need permits and\/or approvals from the Department and\/or other federal, provincial and municipal regulators before they can proceed
– there are two classes of environmental assessment, Class I and Class II; both are robust and transparent and require consultation with the Mi\u2019kmaq and the public <\/p>\n\n\n\n