advances in environmental protection. Since its inception, members of RED DOT have spent countless hours attending meetings and conferences and reading hundreds of documents to understand the complexities of environmental issues. As a result, we have concluded that current legislation and myriad policies and guidelines do not provide adequate protection for coastal areas and wetlands. As of the end of 2023, the Red Dot Association has over 2000 supporters of which over 500 are property owners or lessors in Pointe-du-Chêne.
Red Dot Association
The Association was founded in 2014 and incorporated on December 14, 2016. Our Red Dot mission is to ensure the future viability of our coastal areas in terms of economic and community growth through... Read MoreRed Dot Involvement in the Shediac Bay Watershed Association (SBWA)
In the summer of 2014, Red Dot members joined the Board of the Shediac Bay Watershed Association (SBWA) and raised the issue about contamination at Parlee Beach. A water quality committee... Read Morewas formed with one of our members as the lead. The lead member prepared a draft briefing note for the Minister of Health with all the lab test results that had been received from the Department of Health through Access to Information Act requests. The briefing note included a cover email that mentioned the issue of fecal contamination had been investigated almost 20 years before and was the reason SBWA was formed. The lead member recommended that the Watershed Association undertake DNA samples of the water for analysis. The samples clearly indicated that there was human fecal matter contaminating the water. Red Dot continues to monitor water quality at Parlee Beach and Shediac Bay.
Mega Campground
In February 2014, a presentation was made to Town Council of Shediac proposing a 750-site campground. Red Dots attended town council meetings regarding land annexed from the... Read MoreAnglican Parish to the Town of Shediac and the by-law containing 14 conditions regarding the campground development. In 2017 through the efforts of the Red Dots, the property was delineated by the Department of the Environment to show more wetlands than anticipated. In June 2019, the campground plan was reduced to 111 sites. The original condition to start development in 2 years was extended 3 times to 2021. In 2017, a GNB minister who was a proponent of the campground recused himself from the project. In 2015, an illegal trail was built on Park wetlands and was properly relocated in June 2018. In 2020, the Red Dot Association wrote a detailed comprehensive plan for an ecological park to replace any plans of a future trailer park proposed by the Anglican Parish of Shediac. Because of continued involvement by the Red Dots and concerns raised about environmental issues by residents, the Anglican Parish changed their priorities to a more environmentally friendly plan. As of today, we are not aware of any proposed development for this property.
Education at the market
During the summers of 2014-2017, RED DOTs opened and operated a booth at the Sunday Farmers’ Market in Shediac in order to inform locals and tourists about the threat to the wetlands and the need... Read Moreto protect them from development that would be harmful to the surrounding community of Pointe-du-Chêne. Red Dot produced signs saying “No Mega Campground Here” which were prominently displayed on residential properties. Each week we received enthusiastic support and collected over 800 signatures on a petition to protect the wetlands along the Northumberland Strait.