Consider the source, known by locals to be a very NIMBY publication. These people are no different that those holding up things like pipelines to the BC coast.
You see, almost none of the government and corporate propaganda is true.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
Canso is a viable launch site that already has all the connections, approvals, and certifications from both provincial and federal governments. Churchill is another site, however only for suborbital launches unless we're willing to let stages drop over land.
With how fund starved anything space related has been in Canada, are we really getting mad over a
construction site? Fund approval doesn't mean everything is finger snapped into a NASA sized spaceport overnight.
It's $20M per year over 10 years to develop the site.
85% of that $200M has to be spent on
local companies too.