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Northern Pulp gets rules for environmental assessment

Northern Pulp has received the terms of reference it must use in an environmental assessment for its proposed reopening of the Pictou...

Province releases draft terms for Northern Pulp's environmental assessment report

Nova Scotia's Environment Department has outlined the information it wants from Northern Pulp before the environment minister will decide...

Environmental assessment of Northern Pulp's mill restart plan begins

The clock has started on the environmental assessment process for Northern Pulp's proposal to restart its beleaguered pulp and paper mill...

Northern Pulp gets green light to spend $450,000 preparing lawsuit against Nova Scotia

The owners of the mothballed Northern Pulp mill have permission to spend $450,000 to prepare a lawsuit against the government of Nova...

Complete transformation' of idled N.S. mill panned by critics

HALIFAX -- The company behind a beleaguered mill in northern Nova Scotia is proposing a "complete transformation" of its operations in an...

Restart plan for Northern Pulp calls for treated effluent to go into Pictou harbour

The proposal for Northern Pulp to restart the mill would see treated effluent released into Pictou harbour. The company submitted its...

Northern Pulp submits new proposal to Nova Scotia Environment Department

Northern Pulp has submitted a proposed plan to the Nova Scotia Environment Department that a company official says will "transform" the...

N.S. to spend $19M to dredge Boat Harbour after Northern Pulp fails to submit cleanup plan

Nova Scotia is spending $19 million to remove sludge from Boat Harbour after Northern Pulp missed a second deadline to submit a plan for...

Northern Pulp stakeholder committee met with skepticism

Northern Pulp — what was Nova Scotia's largest pulp and paper mill until it was forced by the provincial government to close last year —...

Northern Pulp falls behind in Boat Harbour cleanup

The discovery of a new bottom layer of sludge at Boat Harbour is being blamed for delaying Northern Pulp's cleanup of the effluent...