A group of community members is suing a property owner over access to Clarke Head Beach. This comes after disputes over beach access have spurred other court cases or conflicts in places ranging from Pictou County to Cow Bay. As more of the province's coastline is developed, and risks around coastal erosion and sea level rise increase, advocates and researchers suggest these kinds of conflicts could become more common. '"As the ocean moves inward, those public access beaches, if there is a private property behind them, are going to get squeezed and eventually are going to disappear," said Nancy Anningson, coastal adaptation senior co-ordinator at the Ecology Action Centre in Halifax. "And we don't have a plan for dealing with that."