Where Does Cabot Get the Right?

Letter submitted by Laura MacDonald The Inverness Oran - October 22, 2025

Dear Editor,

In 2023, I asked to make a presentation on my research on chemical-free water to the Committee of the Whole in Inverness county. Keith MacDonald, CAO for the Municipality of the County of Inverness, refused to give me a date and a time to present my findings about chemical- fee water. Finally, Keith MacDonald, CAO for the Municipality of the County of Inverness, refused to give me a date and a time to present my findings about chemical- fee water. Finally, Keith MacDonald decided I could make a presentation to him and two other councillors behind closed doors, but I refused because I wanted to present to all of the committee. I met with John MacLennan, one of the councillors, before the Committee of the Whole in Port Hood. He distributed my presentation to each councillor, but I still did not hear back from the council even though I tried several times to book an appointment.

As concerned property owners, bans need to be put in place for the use of fungicides, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and herbicides. Cabot golf courses have no accountability for the use of the above poisons and toxins.

In 2023, when our MLA, Allan MacMaster, asked for a list of names and chemicals and the amount used at Cabot, the response was: "No, we do not need to answer that question." Freedom of Information and the Environment and Climate Change had no file on Cabot Links.

If the poisons and toxins get into the air, the water table, streams, ponds, humans, animals, and marine life will suffer the harmful effects.

In Nova Scotia, there are no regulations around the use of toxins and chemicals. There are other alternatives. Environmental applications are used widely throughout the world. As caretakers of our environment for ourselves and our future generations, the Nova Scotia government has to change the legislation to protect our parks, beaches, and water from any development, permanently.

Another thought is how many squirrels, birds, rabbits, etc., can a fir tree can house? It can house many animals. The animals that drink from the ponds will still go and get a belly full of poisons. Where does Cabot get the right to butcher all those animals? No one talks of the sink holes they do exist. Reprint the assessment done in the early days.

Laura MacDonald

West Mabou