Miquelon moving residents’ homes due to rising sea levels

I'm on the island of Miquelon, which is just off the coast of Newfoundland, but this is French territory, and this town has a big problem. These houses are just one or two meters above sea level, and as the sea level rises, the concern here is that these houses are going to start to flood. So the community has come up with a plan. They're going to move. It allows the community to be safe in the long term. Here's how the plan will work. People will have their houses appraised. they'll then get a bunch of money to be able to go and build a new house on a new area of land that's much higher above the ocean. Then, the old house will be demolished. That means gradually, over the next couple of decades, the town is slowly going to disappear, and that doesn't sit well with everyone in the community. I've been living here, as I said, since I was born, so I think to just take everything, tear everything down and go somewhere else, I don't feel like it. Well, I think it's going to be difficult to see because you're going to see that they age, die, you know, slowly, and I don't know, I don't think that. This whole program is voluntary, but the people who want to stay are worried, what will happen? Will there be further restrictions that prevent them from adding on to their house or passing it down to their future generations? And all of this is going to take time. The mayor says it will likely be the end of the century until Miquelon is moved to higher ground. Peter Cowan, CBC News, Miquelon, France.