Nova Scotia expands 2 quarries to support highway, infrastructure projects

The Seabrook Quarry in Digby County, N.S., is expanding. (Source: Google Maps)

Nova Scotia is expanding two quarries in Colchester and Digby counties to supply materials for highway, housing, clean energy and other infrastructure projects.

The province says the Kemptown and Seabrook quarries provide stone, gravel and other materials.

Nova Construction Co. Ltd.’s expansion of the Seabrook quarry was approved on May 7 and Chapman Bros. Construction Ltd.’s quarry expansion in Kemptown was approved on May 22.

“Quarries provide the building blocks for all of the infrastructure Nova Scotians depend on, from roads and highways, homes and other buildings, to hospitals and schools,” said Timothy Halman, minister of Environment and Climate Change, in a news release. “These two approvals have stringent terms and conditions to protect the environment and human health, while allowing sustainable and necessary development to take place for the benefit of all Nova Scotians.”

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