Bedford Waterfront Development

The proposed Bedford Waterfront Development is planning to build a new condo and shopping area on the Bedford Waterfront, by infilling part of the Bedford Basin. Unfortunately the project will also wipe out a beautiful, natural area of the basin, with tidal pools teeming with life, sandpiper nests and an osprey fishing area. You can take action to stop the project: http://www.halifax.ca/visionhrm/bedfordwaterfront/
Join the facebook group here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=106453252739921
Sign the Petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bedfordbasinreef/
(All footage shot my Mark Currie, editing by Jeff Harper)

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• bedford
• halifax
• dartmouth
• HRM
• Vision HRM
• Bedford Waterfront Development
• Bedford Basin
• Nova Scotia
• Sandpipers
• nesting
• shorebirds

[foxhollowTV9]

**NEW VIDEO**

There is a new video (Posted 6 Jun 2011) to promote the creation of a coastal park.

Watch it here and learn about this fascinating place:

youtube.com/watch?v=Gsi7MpQ8A7­c

[foxhollowTV9]

There will be an event on the evening of 30 May 2011 to raise awareness and promote the creation of a MARINE PARK for this reef and tide pools. It will be held at nearby DeWolfe Park featuring music and information about the development project.

Might as well have one acre of natural shoreline preserved in all of the Basin, eh?

[flowergal66]

The people in Bedford are not living in a bubble..why do you think this video was created? your comment is ridiculous. Of course, there are many worse things happening in the environment, but this is how people take action..one thing at a time.

[learrus]

@MiaBridgetLanie

This is what I have been saying about our surrounding forests which are being constantly perverted with oil spills from logging equipment.

My suggestion to you is to stay in your little bubble life of Bedford and never leave if you do not want to see much more worse things than this.

Thought it is nice to see people of Bedford finally realize there is a living environment around them... Sheesh...

[learrus]

@bluenoserr

You do make a good point.

Pack the Yuppies into cell blocks like this, they've already bought up enough of Hammonds Plains to turn into golf courses...

In fact, why is no one making a video about how the Hammonds Plains development is destroying habitat of Fisher Cats; who last count in NS, numbered under 700???

Maybe I have a summer time project now...

[flowergal66]

the big deal is this is wrong. it is a natural tidal reef and bird habitat, and history that will be lost all for large development....more condos and shopping . We are losing all our green space, come back in a few years and say whats the big deal, when there is nothing left but a concrete jungle.

[tapdancegirl88]

ok so whats the big deal

[MiaBridgetLanie]

@borfus i hope hope u die a long and painful death, and have your eyes ripped out by cats and have your skin eaten by animals. o.. and i no.. PLANT A TREE ON YOUR GRAVE!

[flowergal66]

to "borfus"...you're entitled to your opinion..as "we people" are to ours. Building on top of a natural reef and tidal pool and bulldozing habitat for nesting sandpipers and other migratory birds is not intelligent development. It is NOT the environmentally responsible way to go in fact. In this day and age, you'd think that development would be more environmentally friendly..in fact many other cities are leading the way when developing and incorporating and saving existing greenspace.

[borfus]

the development will just move elsewhere to more environmentally sensitive forests. you people think you're helping the environment, but you're not. dense development is the environmentally responsible way to go.