The Heritage Run Tourism Association has been working for a number of years to promote tourism in our area and part of their plan was to put a View park with the theme of Glacier Erratics along the highway. "This was to be one of the ways of enhancing our tourism product and to help to explain to visitors our unique landscape. I am appalled to see what government has allowed to happen here and I think someone in a position of authority has to take responsibility and see if there is anything possible that can be done to rectify this situation. Unfortunately, the site may be damaged beyond repair."

Foote says government officials were informed of objections to the excavation of the Sandy Harbour River area and they were told it was a possible site for a View park with a theme of Glacier Erratics, but the work proceeded anyway.

"We have a case here of a lack of co-ordination and a lack of real planning for rural areas of this province. The Heritage Run Tourism Association had been working with several government departments on this project and they informed officials of the Department of Natural Resources that they disagreed with the removal of the glacier erratics."

Foote says while the damage may already be done in this case, government should learn from its mistake. "If there is anything good that can come out of what has happened here, it should be that government reviews it procedures so something like this does not happen again, and more people are involved in the process. Unfortunately, it appears that government cutbacks may make that impossible. A response given by an official in the Department of Natural Resources was, and I quote "....any expansion of the list of referral agencies will serve to increase the strain on our already stretched resources". This is further evidence that government cuts can go too far and while they save money in the short term, they have a negative impact on the future of the province."