BY WENDY ELLIOTT
Kings County Advertiser/Register
No Farms No Food organized tremendous community support, media events and public awareness campaigns to pressure Kings County council to defeat a recent rezoning application involving several hundred acres of land in Greenwich from agricultural to open for varied development.
The Nova Scotia Environmental Network says the lobby group is its Eco-Heroes Environmental Group of the Year.
The award will be presented mid-March.
Provincial recognition for taking determined environmental action, says NF2 spokeswoman Marilyn Cameron, makes the group’s core members feel very good. She adds NF2 has worked very hard in the last couple of years. Interest in preserving farmland “is growing by leaps and bound.” Kings County passed the rezoning Feb. 1, and it awaits provincial review.
Cameron herself won the network’s individual eco-hero award last year, largely for her championship of the dangers of biosolids. The Award for Environmental Political Will has previously gone to former environment minister and Kings North MLA Mark Parent and the Town of Wolfville.
welliott@kentvilleadvertiser.ca
