{"id":1365,"date":"2016-04-27T07:16:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T11:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2016-04-28T18:40:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T22:40:33","slug":"purcells-cove-backlands-could-become-a-nature-conservancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=1365","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Purcells Cove Backlands could become a nature conservancy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/halifax-regional-council-purcells-cove-backlands-report-1.3554586\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.3554631.1461722692!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/16x9_620\/purcells-cove-backlands.jpg\" alt=\"CBC\" class=\"alignleft\"  width=\"200\" \/><\/a>It should read &#8220;The Williams Lake Backlands, part of the larger Purcells Cove Backlands&#8221;..regardless, possibly some good news. <\/p>\n<p>The subititle to this CBC news item is &#8220;Development company is willing to sell close to 162 hectares of land to the municipality&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Shaw Group has teamed up with the Nature Conservancy of Canada to negotiate an agreement with Halifax region over the future of the Purcells Cove Backlands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Shaw Group owns close to 162 hectares of the urban wilderness, but the development company is willing to sell land to the municipality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have provided an evaluation and a discounted purchase price for the lands,&#8221; said Alan Shaw, president of the Shaw Group. &#8220;We have listened to what the public has to say and the importance of these lands to the future green network.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Read full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/halifax-regional-council-purcells-cove-backlands-report-1.3554586\">CBC Report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It should read &#8220;The Williams Lake Backlands, part of the larger Purcells Cove Backlands&#8221;..regardless, possibly some good news. The subititle to this CBC news item is &#8220;Development company is willing to sell close to 162 hectares of land to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=1365\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}