“The provincial government now needs to quickly amend the provincial parks legislation to provide greater protection for our provincial parks, and to reduce the broad discretion that is built into the act that developers keep trying to exploit,” said Plourde.

Cabot lobbyist and former premier, Rodney MacDonald, won't give up, saying "Cabinet is within its right to consider an application at any point in time regardless of what the Department position is."

The premier's office says it does not intend to allow a proposed golf course to be created within a provincial park in Cape Breton despite vows by a former Nova Scotia premier to continue lobbying for the development.

The Ecology Action Centre says the Provincial Parks Act has too many loopholes: "What we see is that developers, if they get a 'no' from a particular government, like Cabot did with the last Liberal government, then they wait for a change of government and try again, and they will keep trying until the Act is strengthened," said Raymond Plourde, Senior Wilderness Coordinator at the EAC.

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