Priorities and potential strategies
Strategic planning exercise by a working group from Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël, Cap-Bateau and Pigeon Hill in the fall of 2013
Members of the working group: Conrad Godin, Alphonse Paulin, Renald Guignard, Mabel Guignard, André Mercier, George Savoie, Corinne Savoie, Rémi Hébert, Victor Landry, Gaston Guignard, Mélissa Duguay, Leroy Webster, Rosaline Beaudin and Laurent Beaudin
Facilitation: CZRI and UMCS
Recommendations:
The areas to be given priority are the:
- Highway 305 into Pigeon Hill and the residences along the coast at the entrance to the Village of Pigeon Hill
- Principal and secondary residences along the coast on Paulin Street in Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël
- Section of Highway 305 crossing Cap-Bateau and the residences along the coast in Cap-Bateau.
The working group is advocating a gradual retreat strategy for all of these areas at risk of erosion. The main recommendations, which support a retreat strategy, call for the relocation of existing buildings by prioritizing principal residences and creating a retreat zone where any new construction would be prohibited. The working group recommends including a retreat zone where no new construction would be allowed, as delineated by the 2100 shoreline projection, in the Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël municipal plan. The group also recommends that shoreline projections be computed for Cap-Bateau and Pigeon Hill.
Report:
Aubé, M., Hébert, C. et Doiron, A. 2014. Accompagnement de communautés de la Péninsule acadienne dans la planification de l’adaptation aux changements climatiques: année 3. Strategic planning exercises in Shippagan, Bas-Caraquet, Le Goulet et Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël, Cap-Bateau and Pigeon Hill.
Scenarios and risks
Technical and scientific work done in 2016
Partners: Coastal Zones Research Institute Inc., Groupe Regenord Inc., The Acadian Peninsula Regional Service Commission, Department of Environment and Local Government, Department of Energy and Resource Development and Université de Moncton, Shippagan campus
Results:
Report :
Aubé, M., Hébert, C., Jean, S., Simard, I, et Chelbi, M. 2017. Analyse de risque d'inondation et d'érosion pour l'Île de Lamèque.
Evaluation and selection of strategies (under way)
Evaluation of the relocation option as an adaptation strategy
Report:
Aubé, M. et Hébert, C. 2015. Évaluation d’options d’adaptation aux changements climatiques: Relocalisation à Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël, Cap-Bateau et Pigeon Hill
Cost-benefit analysis of adaptation strategies including relocation
Report:
Aubé, M., Hébert, C., Wilson, J., Trenholm, R. and Patriquin, M. 2016. Cost Benefit Analysis of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for the Acadian Peninsula.
Report:
Aubé, M., Hébert, C. et Doiron, A. 2014. Accompagnement de communautés de la Péninsule acadienne dans la planification de l’adaptation aux changements climatiques: année 3. Strategic planning exercises in Shippagan, Bas-Caraquet, Le Goulet et Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël, Cap-Bateau and Pigeon Hill.
Scenarios and risks
Technical and scientific work done in 2016
Partners: Coastal Zones Research Institute Inc., Groupe Regenord Inc., The Acadian Peninsula Regional Service Commission, Department of Environment and Local Government, Department of Energy and Resource Development and Université de Moncton, Shippagan campus
Results:
- high-resolution elevation model based on LiDAR data
- sea level rise and storm surge level projections
- shoreline recession and advancement projections
- database of infrastructures at risk based on various flood and shoreline recession scenarios
Report :
Aubé, M., Hébert, C., Jean, S., Simard, I, et Chelbi, M. 2017. Analyse de risque d'inondation et d'érosion pour l'Île de Lamèque.
Evaluation and selection of strategies (under way)
Evaluation of the relocation option as an adaptation strategy
Report:
Aubé, M. et Hébert, C. 2015. Évaluation d’options d’adaptation aux changements climatiques: Relocalisation à Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël, Cap-Bateau et Pigeon Hill
Cost-benefit analysis of adaptation strategies including relocation
Report:
Aubé, M., Hébert, C., Wilson, J., Trenholm, R. and Patriquin, M. 2016. Cost Benefit Analysis of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for the Acadian Peninsula.
