Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says a proposed golf course in Cape Breton’s West Mabou Beach Provincial Park will not go ahead, adding that the company’s plans were “unreasonable.”

The company, Cabot, submitted a proposal to government over the summer to secure part of the provincial park.

“What we were trying to look at was what would be the pros and cons, what would be something that would be of benefit to Nova Scotians and I think that was the process that was happening,” Houston told reporters Thursday.

Cabot currently operates golf courses in nearby Inverness, and this is its third pitch to build at the Mabou park.

The company’s website says it wanted to construct an 18-hole golf course and shop, which would occupy up to 35 per cent of the park’s land.

Houston says the Departm

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