Environmentalists hopeful Quebec will save Hudson green space from development
Global News
A developer was given authorization to build a housing development on a green space near Sandy Beach in 2014, but the government now wants to revoke the permit.
The latest chapter in a long-running battle over the fate of a forest in Hudson, Que., has environmentalists feeling optimistic.
For years a developer has been working to build a housing project in a glimmering green space next to Sandy Beach, but now Quebec seems poised to stop it.
“From an environmental perspective, from a flood control perspective, it makes no sense to build here,” said Rob Horwood, a board member with Nature Hudson.
The peaceful green oasis is home to dozens of animal species, and for years environmentalists like Horwood have been battling to protect them.
“The housing project that’s proposed would subsume all these wetlands,” Horwood said, pointing to an area with running water, tall grass and a heron cleaning itself on a muddy bank.
In 2014, developer Nicanco Holdings received government approval to turn just over one and a half hectares of woods and wetlands near Sandy Beach into a housing development.
“Tax revenue is nice for a town, but not at the expense of destroying a gem like this,” Horwood told Global News.
Bulldozers, however, have yet to destroy the swath of swamp and marsh. Environmentalists are feeling they may finally get their wish.
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