{"id":662928,"date":"2026-05-11T20:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662928\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T20:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:03:18","slug":"coastal-erosion-on-provincial-government-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662928\/","title":{"rendered":"Coastal Erosion on Provincial Government Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eroding embankment along northeast battery on Bois Island showing exposed muzzle from cannon;
\n(right) a clay tobacco pipe fragment eroding out of the same embankment further south. (PAO)<\/p>\n

Coastal erosion is on the provincial government\u2019s agenda with efforts to come up with a mitigation plan to address the issue.<\/p>\n

Provincial archeologists recently sounded the alarm<\/a> about the problem after mapping out the rapid rate of coastal erosion on Bois Island near Ferryland.<\/p>\n

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A map showing how much the coast line of Bois Island has changed since 1951 (PAO)<\/p>\n

Assistant Deputy Minister Susan Squires, says many municipalities are considering changes to their communities due to coastal erosion.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoastal erosion is a tough one. We can\u2019t always stop it. The direction that we\u2019re seeing around the world and in many places is it\u2019s a risk-mitigated approach, moving from preventative measures, engineered structures and retreat. And that can be challenging for homeowners and communities to hear,\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGovernment has funded things like breakwaters and whatnot for communities that have come forward with this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eroding embankment along northeast battery on Bois Island showing exposed muzzle from cannon; (right) a clay tobacco…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-662928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662928","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=662928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}