Hops to save West Mabou Beach
- savewestmaboubeach
- Nov 6, 2025
- 1 min read
Jessica Laing 101.5 The Hawk - November 7, 2025 Originally published here
A local business owner is using his craft to help protect a provincial park.
West Mabou Beach in Cape Breton is at risk of having a private company develop a golf course on it, and it has become a hot button topic through the entire province.
Founder and Alesmith of Big Spruce Brewing, Jeremy White, explains to our newsroom how considering the proposal is a dangerous precedent.
“Are we saying that for the right price billionaires can come and start businesses on protected public land here in Nova Scotia?” questions White.
“We really feel it doesn’t matter whether you lean right, you lean left or you lean somewhere down the middle with your politics,” he expresses. “This is about natural public spaces and their protection and ensuring that they continued to be protected in the future. And so, we wanted to help, like I say, shine a light on that and the beer hopefully will do that.”
His company is a supporter of Cabot having worked with them in the past, but when it comes to developing on public land, they are not okay with it.
He’s hopeful that the can campaign will draw attention to stop protected spaces from being sold in Nova Scotia.
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