{"id":7325,"date":"2024-05-16T19:01:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T22:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7325"},"modified":"2024-05-17T09:17:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T12:17:26","slug":"nova-scotia-boosts-fine-for-illegal-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/05\/16\/nova-scotia-boosts-fine-for-illegal-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia boosts fine for illegal burning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston told reporters Thursday that a $25,000 fine for violating burn restrictions is about preventing more wildfires. (Nova Scotia Government)<\/p><\/div>\n

With wildfires breaking out in western Canada, Nova Scotia has increased the fine for violating the daily burn restrictions to $25,000.<\/span><\/p>\n

From March 15 to Oct. 15, daily burn restrictions are in place across the province to help prevent wildfires.<\/span><\/p>\n

Burning is not permitted anywhere between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. because that is when the wildfire risk is greatest.<\/span><\/p>\n

Premier Tim Houston told reporters on Thursday that the increased fine is to help prevent the wildfires from happening in the first place. The basic fine for violating burn restrictions is $237.50. The larger fine is in place until the end of wildfire season.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe encourage all Nova Scotians to check before you burn,” Houston said. “Check the website, reach out to find out what\u2019s the situation in your community. \u2026 With the weather changing, the risk increases and we know the experience that we had in this province last year and we are seeing what is happening across the country, significant forest fires across the country. We should do what we can to prepare and encourage prevention.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Last spring, wildfires in southwestern Nova Scotia and in the Halifax area consumed more than 25,000 hectares and destroyed 200 homes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Houston said people should check the province\u2019s BurnSafe map<\/a> every day to check the restrictions in their area.<\/span><\/p>\n

The daily burn restrictions also now apply to campgrounds. Open fires like campfires are permitted only after 2 p.m. when the BurnSafe map is green or after 7 p.m. when the map is yellow. Those are the same standards for open fires in people\u2019s backyards.<\/span><\/p>\n

The province increased the fine to $25,000 last year when the Nova Scotia wildfires were still burning. Houston said Thursday he\u2019s confident that if somebody violates the burning restrictions, they will be fined.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo the enforcement is there. We\u2019re serious about preparation, we\u2019re serious about prevention. I would personally push for if anyone ignores the burn ban, I want them charged for sure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

So far this year, crews have responded to 41 wildfires across the province that have burned about 39 hectares.<\/span><\/p>\n

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With wildfires breaking out in western Canada, Nova Scotia has increased the fine for violating the daily burn restrictions to $25,000. From March 15 to Oct. 15, daily burn restrictions are in place across the province to help prevent wildfires. Burning is not permitted anywhere between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. because that is when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[2201,2196,2197,2199,1997,241,2198,2200,2195,98,716,1629],"class_list":["post-7325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-burn-restrictions","tag-burning-restrictions","tag-burnsafe-map","tag-campgrounds","tag-halifax","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nova-scotia-wildfires","tag-open-fires","tag-southwestern-nova-scotia","tag-tim-houston","tag-wildfire","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7337,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325\/revisions\/7337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}