MABOU — Some in Cape Breton are angry and preparing to fight as a nearby golf course developer eyes the windswept beaches of West Mabou Beach Provincial Park.

Nadine Hunt was part of two previous campaigns to stop the Cabot golf company from expanding into the park on the west coast of Cape Breton Island.

This time is worse, Hunt said in a recent interview.

Now, the provincial government seems open to the expansion, she said. The company has even made a website for the project.

“We feel powerless,” Hunt said, the sable-coloured beach stretching out behind her. “People have said, ‘We’ll be in front of the bulldozers.’ Many, many people have said that. It’s terrible if it’s going to have to come to that.”

West Mabou Beach Provincial Park encompasses about 2.8 square kilometres of sand d

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