Premier’s delay on Boat Harbour decision draws opposition ire | CBC News
Steve MacLellan
U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue meets with (from left across table) Yukon Premier and council of the Federation Chair Sandy Silver, Prince Edward Island Premier Wade MacLauchlan, Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister, New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Dwight Ball, Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil, Northwest Territories Premier Bob McLeod; Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Minister (British Columbia) Steve Thomson, in Washington, D.C., on June 7, 2017. Seated near window from left, is Yukon Government Assistant Deputy Minister Andrea Buckley, (Representing Ambassador MacNaughton) Canada Embassy (Economic) Minister Gilles Gauthier, and __. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil won’t speak publicly about the future of Boat Harbour and Northern Pulp until Friday, a move that’s drawing heaps of scorn from opposition leaders who say the delay is unfair to thousands of workers in the forestry industry.
On Tuesday, Environment Minister Gordon Wilson said the company’s environmental focus report lacked enough science-based information for him to make a decision on the Pictou County-based mill’s proposal to build a new effluent treatment plant, which would replace the current facility at Boat Harbour.
Wilson ordered an environmental assessment report, a process that could take at least two years.
