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WENDY ELLIOTT: Climate justice happens when?

Driving around the gorgeous Nova Scotia countryside this summer, I kept noting the perennial signs: Save Species at Risk, Stop Clear Cutting, No Uranium Mining, and Coastal Protection Act Now.

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So let me apologize right off – I feel another rant building.

Every day reading in the news about wildfires and escapes from flames exacerbates my sense that no one in government is listening. Thus, the signs stay up.

Back in June, over 50 conservation, community, recreation, health, seniors, and faith groups from across our province came together to urge Nova Scotia to accelerate its efforts and collaborate with the public in order to meet its protected areas commitments.

“A government has to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time,” said Raymond Plourde, senior wilderness co-ordinator with the Ecology Action Centre. “It needs to be able to do more than one thing. Development and conservation can happen at the same time, but it takes a multifaceted government.”

Two months ago, the centre asked why the province was continuing to drag its collective feet when it came to fulfilling........

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