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PEI Development
May 23, 2023

A controversial P.E.I. development includes a stony seawall. Critics say it threatens the shoreline

A controversial construction project on the coast of Prince Edward Island has been the subject of residents’ ire for months, thanks to a large stone seawall that critics say severely restricts access to the public beach.

“People who used to walk that beach, well, they can’t walk it…. You’d have to crawl up over armour stone to be able to walk that stretch of beach,” resident Joan Diamond told CBC’s Janna Graham.

Diamond drew up a petition, signed by more than 2,000 Islanders, that calls on the provincial government to halt construction of the seawall and have it removed completely. It surrounds a new vacation home on the Island’s north shore at Point Deroche.

The property’s owners, Toronto couple Jesse and Julie Rasch, have a website of their own, where they have spoken out on what is described as misinformation about the project, arguing it’s “vastly safer to walk around than the old seawall.”

There’s more at stake beyond the beach’s walkability: P.E.I. is slowly eroding, caused in part by high winds and rising sea levels spurred on by climate change — and most recently a battering by post-tropical storm Fiona.

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