{"id":3513,"date":"2016-06-25T07:42:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T10:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=3513"},"modified":"2016-06-30T07:57:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T10:57:18","slug":"mark-parent-speaks-out-about-bmbcl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=3513","title":{"rendered":"Mark Parent speaks out about BMBCL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Parent was Minister of Environment when the province designated crown lands in BMBCL a Protected Wilderness Area. In an opinion piece in the CH today (Sat June 25), he lays out the understanding with HRM at the time. He concludes &#8220;Well, the province acted 10 years ago. It\u2019s time now for HRM and its councillors to live up to this historic agreement for the good not only of present citizens but, more importantly, of generations to come.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/opinion\/1375290-opinion-city-has-forgotten-blue-mountain-mandate\">Read more<\/a>. The Developers are not sympathetic according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/developer-defends-stake-in-blue-mount-birch-cove-park-1.3652176\">CBC News item<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Parent was Minister of Environment when the province designated crown lands in BMBCL a Protected Wilderness Area. In an opinion piece in the CH today (Sat June 25), he lays out the understanding with HRM at the time. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=3513\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3513"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3566,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions\/3566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}