You're an MLA. Someone proposes a quarry and aggregate operation next to your home. What do you do?

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You're an MLA. Someone proposes a quarry and aggregate operation next to your home. What do you do?

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What would you do if you found out that the owner of the property next door to your home was proposing to turn it into a quarry and aggregate operation? What if you discovered that most people in your community didn't want it? Would you say "... there is nothing anybody can do to prevent the quarry from locating on the site..." to the local media? What if you were the local MLA? That's the present circumstance of the new Liberal Party Leader in Nova Scotia, Stephen McNeil. 

In tiny, rural, Upper Granville Nova Scotia, a construction company has applied for permission to build a quarry and aggregate operation next door to the home of the local MLA, who has expressed no objection to the proposal. The permit has not yet been granted, but the proponent has already built a substantial road, scarred a mountainside in a major tourist area, and seems to expect no impediment to his project. His new road appears to link to various existing pits or quarries on several of his parcels of land, extending about 10km from the Evangeline Trail to the Bay of Fundy. Many area residents are expressing considerable frustration with the situation.

The property on the other side of the new quarry road is a Bed and Breakfast.

After this ordinary beginning, the story becomes really strange. 

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