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    Taxpayers won't likely shoulder full cost of Boat Harbour replacement, minister says. Opposition
    Michael Gorman · CBC News
    • Mar 29, 2018

    Taxpayers won't likely shoulder full cost of Boat Harbour replacement, minister says. Opposition

    Boat Harbour has been receiving waste water from the nearby Northern Pulp mill since the late 1960s and has now accumulated enough contaminants, when dried, to fill about 100 Olympic-sized swimming pools. (Steve Lawrence/CBC) Infrastructure Minister Lloyd Hines says the public should be prepared to pay for a portion of the new effluent treatment facility for Northern Pulp, but he does not expect taxpayers to shoulder all the costs. "It's highly unlikely the province will be o
    No pipe in the strait: fisheries groups and First Nations to Northern Pulp
    SAM MACDONALD, HERALD NEWS
    • Mar 28, 2018

    No pipe in the strait: fisheries groups and First Nations to Northern Pulp

    They don’t want pulp effluent in the Northumberland Strait. An alliance has been forged among the Gulf Nova Scotia Fleet Planning Board, the Maritime Fishermen’s Union, the Prince Edward Island Fishermen’s Association (PEIFA), the New Brunswick Fisheries Association and Pictou Landing First Nation. Their purpose is to publicly and officially oppose the proposed discharge of Northern Pulp’s effluent into the Northumberland Strait – and to demand a federal environmental assessm
    Fisheries groups opposing Nova Scotia mill's proposed effluent treatment plant
    Aly Thomson, National Post
    • Mar 28, 2018

    Fisheries groups opposing Nova Scotia mill's proposed effluent treatment plant

    The Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation mill is seen in Abercrombie, N.S. on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017. A group of Maritime fisheries groups say a proposed effluent treatment plan for the Northern Pulp mill in Nova Scotia could have negative environmental impacts on marine life in the Northumberland Strait.Andrew Vaughan / THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — Opposition is mounting against a plan by a kraft pulp mill in Nova Scotia to pump treated waste into the Northumberland Strai
    Environment minister has homework to do on Northern Pulp: group
    FRANCIS CAMPBELL THE CHRONICLE HERALD
    • Mar 8, 2018

    Environment minister has homework to do on Northern Pulp: group

    A Pictou County group says a letter from Environment Minister Iain Rankin to a concerned citizen shows that the minister has more homework to do. According to the Friends of Northumberland Strait group, the minister replied to a citizen who had voiced concerns about an effluent pipe from a proposed Northern Pulp wastewater treatment plant extending into the Northumberland Strait by writing: “I am sure you are aware that effluent from the pulp mill has been treated by the Boat
    Friends of Northumberland Strait say Iain Rankin hasn’t done his homework on pulp effluent
    The Advocate
    • Mar 7, 2018

    Friends of Northumberland Strait say Iain Rankin hasn’t done his homework on pulp effluent

    PICTOU — A citizens group in Pictou County is urging the environment minister to do more homework with regards to Northern Pulp. Friends of the Northumberland Strait (FONS) want Iain Rankin to understand how the mill’s proposed new effluent treatment plan could impact the Northumberland Strait. FONS points to Rankin’s response to a concerned citizen as an indication that the minister needs to learn more. In a response letter to a concerned citizen, whose name has been blacked
    MacFarlane says province missed cue in Northern Pulp assessment process
    THE NEWS
    • Mar 6, 2018

    MacFarlane says province missed cue in Northern Pulp assessment process

    If the province were to require a Level 2 environmental assessment of Northern Pulp for the creation of their new effluent treatment facility, it would put them in a time crunch to finish before the January 2020 deadline mandated to replace the Boat Harbour Treatment Facility that the company might not be able to meet. Pictou West MLA Karla MacFarlane recognizes that’s a problem, but said there wouldn’t be such a critical situation with regard to the timeline if the province
    Fishing groups from P.E.I., others, standing firm on no pulp pipe
    THE GUARDIAN
    • Mar 1, 2018

    Fishing groups from P.E.I., others, standing firm on no pulp pipe

    This pipeline is part of Northern Pulp's plans to replace the Boat Harbour effluent treatment facility. - SaltWire Network Fishermen groups in P.E.I., New Brunswick and Nova Scotia say they are done meeting with Northern Pulp until the pulp mill comes up with an alternate plan for handling its effluent. The mill proposes piping its effluent directly into the Northumberland Strait. Those associations are said to represent more than 3,000 fish harvesters from P.E.I., New Brunsw

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