An agreement protects Northern Pulp against loss or damages, and suggests the province would be entirely on the hook for the cost of cleaning up Boat Harbour and building the new treatment facility.
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Northern pulp appeals ministerial cleanup order, pauses environmental assessment – HalifaxToday.ca
HALIFAX — The parent company for the idled Northern Pulp mill says it has filed an appeal with the Nova Scotia Supreme Court related to a ministerial order issued last month for the management of the site. The pulp mill stopped production on Jan. 31 after the province rejected its request to continue pumping treated…
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N.S. government extends Northern Pulp’s use of Boat Harbour wastewater treatment plant until April – Halifax | Globalnews.ca
Northern Pulp will continue to use its Boat Harbour wastewater treatment plant until the end of April as the company prepares the facility for its indefinite closure. On Wednesday, Northern Pulp announced it had received an order from Nova Scotia Minister of Environment Gordon Wilson that directs the continued use of its wastewater treatment plant…
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Nova Scotia pulp mill issues layoff notices as facility winds down operations | CTV News Atlantic
HALIFAX -- Northern Pulp says it has started giving layoff notices to employees at the Nova Scotia mill. The company has moved to mothball the mill after its plan for a new treatment system that would see it pump treated effluent into the Northumberland Strait was rejected by the province. Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil…
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Nova Scotia’s forestry transition team to spend $7M on silviculture | CBC News
Nova Scotia's forestry transition team will spend $7 million on silviculture work and forest road building, a move Premier Stephen McNeil says should keep up to 300 people working in the woods as usual for the next year. The money will be for programs on Crown and private land in central and western Nova Scotia…
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‘No clear answers’: PC leader calls for details on Northern Pulp transition team
Without a place to send its effluent, the mill cannot operate. In announcing his decision, McNeil also detailed plans for a transition team that would include officials from multiple departments, the forestry sector and Nova Scotia Community College and work with a $50-million fund to help workers trying to determine their next step. In a…
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Northern Pulp plans to shut down Nova Scotia mill after premier refuses to grant extension | CBC News
Pictou Landing First Nation Chief Andrea Paul quickly became emotional as she spoke to reporters following McNeil's announcement. "It's been a long time coming," she said. Paul said she's grateful to the premier and government, as well as her community. "This has been a very challenging issue. I know it wasn't going to be easy…
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Top Northern Pulp official speaks as premier refuses to grant extension | CBC News
After three days of public silence, Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil delivered a decision that could define his time in office — his government will not amend the Boat Harbour Act, forcing the closure of Northern Pulp's effluent facility by the end of January. The move keeps a promise McNeil made to a First Nation…
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Don Wilson: a recent Supreme Court ruling says volumes about the Northern Pulp Mill’s future 18Dec2019 | Nova Scotia Forest Notes
Received today from Don Wilson, who has written many op-eds about NS forestry in Saltwire publications (some cited on NSFN): After the Pulp Mill The Supreme Court of Canada web site has published it’s Dec 6, 2019 decision that says pulp mills are responsible for clean up of pollutant(s), not governments, irregardless of indemnity contracts…
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Premier’s delay on Boat Harbour decision draws opposition ire | CBC News
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…
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