Christmas tree farm not for sale

Published on May 2, 2012; Published on May 2, 2012

The Higgins family has been in Nova Scotia’s Musquodoboit Valley for 120 years and do not want to sell their Christmas tree farm.

Topics :: Chronicle-Herald , Division of Australia , Moose River , Nova Scotia

But Atlantic Gold has applied to the province to expropriate land in Moose River, some of it owned by the Higgins’.

According to the Chronicle-Herald, over the next decade the company (a division of Australia’s DDV Gold) plans to mine close to a billion dollars of gold from two Moose River locations.

The newspaper quoted a Higgins family representative saying they valued the (proposed) mine site property at $300,000 but it was not for sale.

Nova Scotia Natural Resources Minister Charlie Parker said Atlantic Gold’s vesting order to expropriate the land is being given careful consideration.

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