{"id":282714,"date":"2025-11-14T14:27:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/282714\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T14:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:27:15","slug":"nova-scotia-turns-down-pitch-to-build-new-golf-course-on-provincial-park-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/282714\/","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia turns down pitch to build new golf course on provincial park land"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A proposal to build a new golf course at a sensitive site on Nova Scotia provincial park property is dead in the water \u2013 at least for now.<\/p>\n<p>CTV News reports the province\u2019s department of natural resources has deemed the developer\u2019s pitch as unreasonable. Premier Tim Houston says he\u2019s unsure if Cabot \u2013 the company behind the project \u2013 will try again with a revised approach. This marks the third time the company has been rejected for its proposal to build a golf course at West Mabou Provincial Park on Cape Breton Island.<\/p>\n<p>The Nova Scotia government had been recently criticized for being willing to hear another proposal after turning it down twice before, but the premier said it would have been irresponsible to not listen to a proposal that could potentially benefit the province economically.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full story from CTV News, click <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11524635\/ns-premier-proposed-golf-course-cape-breton-park-wont-go-ahead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A proposal to build a new golf course at a sensitive site on Nova Scotia provincial park property&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-282714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}