Environmental Update

EAC rejected from intervention in Liverpool Bay fish farm expansion hearing

The Nova Scotia Aquaculture Review Board has rejected the EAC’s bid for intervenor status in the next fish farm expansion hearing at Liverpool Bay.
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“This is by far the biggest open-net pen salmon farming expansion in Nova Scotia in decades, and the hearing is going to proceed without an environmental voice in the room,” says Simon Ryder-Burbidge, senior marine coordinator with the EAC.⁠

“The expansion carries a huge amount of ecological risk to our public waters, and the voices of concerned Nova Scotians beyond Liverpool have been effectively shut out. This needs to be fixed by the province."⁠