{"id":56383,"date":"2025-07-02T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=56383"},"modified":"2025-07-02T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:45:00","slug":"hants-county-quarry-annapolis-county-sand-pit-expanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=56383","title":{"rendered":"Hants County quarry, Annapolis County sand pit expanding"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HALIFAX:<\/strong> A quarry in Hants County and a sand pit in Annapolis County are expanding to support Nova Scotia\u2019s growth, jobs and infrastructure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spence Aggregates Ltd.\u2019s quarry project, near Newport Station, and the Shaw Group\u2019s sand pit project, near Nictaux, received environmental assessment approval July 2.

The quarry supplies rock, gravel and sand needed to build roads and highways, clean energy projects, housing and other infrastructure projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The sand pit supplies high-quality, commercial sand which is used to make concrete and for septic installations, supporting the construction, housing and agricultural sectors.

\u201cPits and quarries 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

\u201cThese two approvals have stringent terms and conditions to protect the environment, while allowing sustainable and necessary development to take place for the benefit of all Nova Scotians.\u201d

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quick Facts<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– both approvals have 33 terms and conditions to protect the environment<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– aggregate, which is sourced from pits and quarries, was added to the list of the Province\u2019s strategic minerals on May 14<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– the Department of Public Works uses 2.5 million tonnes of gravel, 750,000 tonnes of asphalt and 27,750 tonnes of sand on average per year in providing Nova Scotians safe, modern roads

Additional Resources:
<\/strong>Spence Aggregates quarry environmental assessment approval and project documents: https:\/\/www.novascotia.ca\/nse\/ea\/spence-aggregates-quarry-expansion\/<\/a>

Nictaux sand pit environmental assessment approval and project documents:\u00a0https:\/\/www.novascotia.ca\/nse\/ea\/nictaux-sand-pit-expansion\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n

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HALIFAX: A quarry in Hants County and a sand pit in Annapolis County are expanding to support Nova Scotia\u2019s growth, jobs and infrastructure. Spence Aggregates Ltd.\u2019s quarry project, near Newport Station, and the Shaw Group\u2019s sand pit project, near Nictaux, received environmental assessment approval July 2. The quarry supplies rock, gravel and sand needed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[8676,7035,4394,8677,8396,8678,1404],"class_list":["post-56383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-annapolis-county","tag-department-of-environment-and-climate-change","tag-hants-county","tag-nictaux","tag-quarry","tag-sand-pit","tag-tim-halman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56383","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=56383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56383\/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=56383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}