Simpson's clients had been in the process of preparing for an appeal of the judge's decision. Jamie Simpson, the lawyer who took the case to the Nova Scotia Supreme Court on behalf of environmentalist Bob Bancroft and the Eastern Shore Forest Watch Association, said he was unaware of the company's decision when contacted Tuesday by CBC News. A judge ruled in July that the issue was not one that should be decided in a court. The decision to delist Owls Head was first reported by CBC News in late 2019. News of the change touched off protests and a court challenge, which ultimately failed. Lighthouse Links wanted to merge the land with adjacent land it already owns for the proposed project.Ī view of part of the area that made up what's known as Owls Head provincial park. But that changed in March 2019, when, after years of lobbying by the company, the provincial Treasury Board under the previous Liberal government quietly removed the designation. The land was a park reserve and was on a list of properties that might eventually get protection as a park. Located in Little Harbour, the land is home to what government scientists have flagged as a globally rare ecosystem. The proposal was to develop up to three golf courses on 285 hectares of land, along with tourist accommodations and a possible housing development, in what's known as Owls Head provincial park - although the land has never officially been designated a park. "We have concluded that we do not have the support of the government of Nova Scotia necessary to make this project a reality," the company said in its statement. The company behind the proposal, Lighthouse Links, issued a statement to CBC News on Tuesday saying it was withdrawing from the letter of offer it signed with the province in December 2019.
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Geo Owl recruiters work around the clock to find the world’s best and brightest to join their team of intel specialists.A controversial plan to develop a golf course at Owls Head on Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore is dead. Consistent with this growth, increasing demand for talented GEOINT professionals with these specific tradecraft specialties requires an intentioned focus on building the workforce of tomorrow. We know that the GEOINT Community is rapidly growing, and this growth is projected to continue through the next decade and beyond. Geo Owl is a mission-focused, impact-making intelligence team that serves Special Operations and the Department of Defense around the globe. The wildfire AI missions have the potential to save thousands of acres of land, hundreds of lives, and generate new projects that could eventually do the same.
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Within the next few years, the Air National Guard 163rd Attack Wing and CalFire are in the works on generating an AI map maker to be integrated into the everyday geospatial technology services process of fighting fires with systems that allow mobile access to the maps for those in the field. In times like this, having the knowledge and ability to use GEOINT, geospatial technology services, and map productions is the difference between life or death. This technology teamwork will not only benefit the next year’s seemingly inevitable wildfire crisis by having reliable preventative measures before the disaster occurs, and can also help the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center develop other AI missions in the future such as hurricane relief. Since 2017 and continuing this year, the Pentagon is in partnership with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as CalFire, by testing geospatial technology services and artificial intelligence algorithms to scan a video and generate a map of the fire within minutes. This leaves the information out to date as soon as it’s released due to the fact that wildfires can burn as fast as 14 miles per hour in grasslands. In years past, the mapping that the National Guard provides after analyzing wildfire surveillance footage can take up to six hours. This natural disaster seems like it couldn’t get any worse, but without AI mapping drones from the March Air Reserve Base helping map fire destruction and providing firefighters detailed images within minutes, the situation could have easily blown up. More than 3 million acres of California land has been turned to ashes and 11 lives have been lost due to the wildfires taking over the (soot-covered) golden state.
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Thankfully, geospatial technology services have helped contain and reduce the spread of wildfires. As if 2020 didn’t have enough going on, the western states of California, Oregon, and Washington are coping with one of their worst wildfire seasons to date.