ICYMI: P.E.I.’s environment minister has conceded that controversy around the construction of a north shore property has highlighted the need to strengthen the province’s shoreline protection policies.
The provincial government is facing scrutiny from the public for allowing this development on Kelpie Lane in Point Deroche to go ahead. Perry Williams • Special to The GuardianCHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — P.E.I.’s environment minister has conceded that controversy around the construction of a north shore property has highlighted the need to strengthen the province’s shoreline protection policies.
After it was sold in 2020, the new owners began an extensive rebuild, involving piles of armouring stones, which jut into the shoreline.“It looks like Peggy’s Cove is there,” MacEwen told the legislature on Nov. 17. Myers said a new policy around the use of the stone on coastlines is needed, but he said Islanders should be consulted. He also suggested that in some coastal areas that are more vulnerable to erosion, buffer zones should be increased.
But MacEwen noted the recent coastal damage caused by post-tropical storm Fiona highlighted the need for more stringent buffer zone protection in more vulnerable areas. Progressive Conservative MLA Sidney MacEwen said the area near the Point Deroches development is some of the areas most vulnerable to erosion on P.E.I. - Stu Neatby
“Savage Harbour has probably the fastest erosion rate on Prince Edward Island, versus maybe the Brudenell River doesn’t,” Myers said. “We may not even be able to build there. There might come a point in time where we say that’s not even a place where we’re going to allow you to build anymore because we know what’s going to happen there over the next 50 years.”Green Opposition leader Peter Bevan-Baker also asked Myers about the Point DeRoche development.
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