OP-ED: Protection for the pulp mill – and not the people?
Their message is simple: “#nopipe.” Fishers from the Pictou Landing First Nation and fishermen’s groups representing about 3,000 harvesters in the Maritimes say they will not accept the proposed plan by the Northern Pulp mill in Pictou to pump up to 85 million litres of treated effluent a day through a 10-kilometre-long pipe directly into the Northumberland Strait. They say they have reached an impasse and will no longer meet with the mill unless it comes up with an alternati