A newly completed study looking for ways to protect the vulnerable strip of land that connects mainland Nova Scotia to New Brunswick, and the rest of Canada, presents three options, all estimated to cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
Extreme weather and rising sea levels caused by climate change threaten to flood the Chignecto Isthmus by the year 2100.
Such an event could cut off a critical rail line and a stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway that allow for an estimated $35 billion in trade each year.
The isthmus is currently protected by dikes and aboiteaux first constructed by the Acadians hundreds
