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Three Men, Three Minutes
Case 00640 and People’s Democracy: a tale from St Margarets Bay as a community rises up against the Ingramport development. The Three Men sat stone-faced at a long bare table at the front of the auditorium of the spanking new Black Point Fire Hall. For four hours they presided over a public hearing of 500 residents without a single comment. Then The Three Men pounced on a community and, in just three minutes, perfidiously torched its heart in defence of the right of one man to exploit. TONY SEED

SUBMISSIONS TO HRM “PUBLIC HEARING”, 28 NOVEMBER 2005
• The whole concept defies logic and science JIM FRYDAY
• Five minutes: who decides? TONY SEED
• Phenomenal number of conflicts of interest ANNE DUNSWORTH
• LULU – locally unwanted land use CYNTHIA MARTIN
• What happens to the Bay should be decided by the people JUDY TAGGART
• The view from the “lighthouse”; petition results: an expression of the citizens in the area KATHY GREIG
• ‘There is no right to a development agreement’ MARTIN C. WARD
• What this area really needs SUZANNE TOWNSEND
• This project does not serve the wishes and desires of the neighboourhood residents JIM CARWARDINE

DOCUMENTATION / BACKGROUND
HRM/Ingramport: Community opposes government of seafront property
(6 Dec 06) Full text of appeal against anti-democratic decision of Halifax Regional Municipality permitting rich condo development on St Margaret's Bay, or monopoly right. JIM FRYDAY et al

Appeal to the Nova Scotia Utility Review Board
(3 Feb 06) The proposal is a significant alteration for the communities of Ingramport and Boutilier's Point in density, scale and impact, and contradicts and contravenes the Halifax Regional Municipality's (HRM) Municipal Planning Strategy on which approval was based. HRM received dozens of submissions from residents at the November 28/05 public hearing, which HRM has on file and recorded.

Review of Environmental Screening Assessment: June 2004 by Jacques Whitford for Destiny Developments
(Oct 05) This review includes environmental and other queries not appropriately addressed in the Environmental Screening Assessment: June 2004 by Jacques Whitford for Destiny Developments. Using the same sub-heads (without repeating the content of the assessment) this review highlights omissions and questionable assumptions found in the screening assessment such as:
• community consultation and concerns are conspicuously absent including information available at the time of the report's compilation
• questionable and/or unverified technical and environmental statements
• the considerable potential for conflict of interest resulting from Jacques Whitford both preparing this report and its proprietary involvement with the lobster habitat technology proposed for HADD compensation. Prepared by
• Michelle Adams; PhD Candidate Environmental Engineering, Dalhousie University
• Dr. Paul F. Brodie; senior research scientist; DFO, ret.
• Dr. Sue Douglas; Biochemist
• James Fryday; Community Researcher
• Dr. Phil Warman, P.Ag, Adjunct Professor, Dalhousie University and NSAC; President/CEO of Coastal BioAgresearch Ltd.
• 3 page ESA critique coverltr.pdf
• 13 page ESA critique.pdf


I have examined the recent provincial guidelines with respect to groundwater removal and believe they are deficient
(05 Jan 06) A letter from Dr Paul Brodie to Minister Kerry Morash

MEDIA REPORTS
No destiny for Ingramport
(29 Nov 05) Over 500 people crowded into the Black Point Fire Hall to discuss a controversial waterfront development at Ingramport. The public hearing was sponsored by HRM, the body that will decide the fate of the project. www.baywatch.ca

Residents urged to oppose project
(29 Nov 05) There was impassioned talk, there were fancy acronyms such as LULU, there was even somewhat confusing talk of "detuning." BARRY DOREY

Big project, little view
(28 Nov 05) The problem is that nobody seems to be looking at the big picture. Nobody, that is, except the neighbours and public at large, none of whom has a veto. www.baywatch.ca

Cramming a development into a quiet nook and cranny
(24 Nov 05) A deep throat in the city offices says once they build, it's "destiny" -- there'll be more parking and the 10 additional townhouses originally planned will soon follow in the thin-edge-of-the-wedge principle. CYNTHIA MARTIN

HRM and Ingramport development: a Question of Scale
(10 Jun 05) Herald article june 10/05 Paul F. Brodie PhD

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