Amherst, N.S. is a potential ground zero of a Canadian climate change disaster, where sea-level communities face rising oceans and await word on a detailed plan and the funding to keep the narrow land link between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick open.
John Atkinson, an area farmer and land owner, stands on a dike along the LaPlanche River near Amherst, N.S. on Wednesday, March 20, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew VaughanLast Updated Thursday, March 28, 2019 12:35PM EDT
Over the past 69 years, the sea level at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy has risen about 38 centimetres, even as the dikes and coastal land continue to subside. The one comfort is that the rapid pace of the Bay of Fundy tidal rise and retreat -- versus areas like the Northumberland Strait, where tide rises are more gradual and sustained -- would make the storm's arrival at the high tide in the basin an unlikely event, he adds.
"We've had two tidal surge events in the past decade that would have been sufficient to overtop the dikes. They simply occurred on a neap tide and because of that factor the water didn't come high enough to overtop the dikes," he said in an interview at his office. "If I were in charge of it, it would be underway now. But we're not, it's not our money," says Higham, who joined his Nova Scotia counterpart for an interview at his city hall.
His home is full of photos of freshwater floods that came over nearby coastal roads and the grazing marshlands over the past two decades, as aging infrastructure was unable to cope with the flow of water. Hopes are now pinned on an engineering assessment that New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Ottawa say will "explore viable options to climate change impacts on the Chignecto Isthmus trade corridor" between the two provinces.
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