Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is passing the buck with his muted response to requests for a federal environmental assessment of the proposed Northern Pulp waste pipe. He was in Pictou Country last week to announce that the federal government will contribute $90 million to twin a stretch of TransCanada highway between Sutherlands River and Antigonish. But the elephant in the room for Pictou County First Nations, fishers, tourism operators and environmentalists was the plan to

Pictou Landing Chief Andrea Paul addresses participants in the #NOPIPE rally on July 6, 2018 in Pictou, N.S., flanked by Mi’kmaq chiefs, fishers’ group leaders and tourism operators from across three provinces. Photo by Gerard J. Halfyard FULL STORY HERE: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/07/25/analysis/uproar-nova-scotia-over-plan-dump-pulp-effluent-northumberland-strait

Fishing boats pass the Northern Pulp mill Friday as concerned residents, fishermen and Indigenous groups protest the mill’s plan to dump millions of litres of effluent daily into the Northumberland Strait in Pictou. (ANDREW VAUGHAN / CP) If the Department of Environment doesn’t give the green light to Northern Pulp’s proposed new effluent treatment plant, taxpayers may be on the hook for the lost profits of an idled mill. That would be on top of the cost of Boat Harbour’s cle

Concerned residents, fishermen and Indigenous groups protest Northern Pulp’s plan to dump millions of litres of effluent daily into the Northumberland Strait on Friday. (ANDREW VAUGHAN / CP) The news last week that Northern Pulp has to find another location for its new effluent pipe raises questions about whether the mill can make the 2020 deadline for closing its Boat Harbour treatment facility. Engineers working on plans for the pipe into the Northumberland Strait have disc

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United by a widespread fear that the Northumberland Strait is imperilled by a pulp mill’s developing plans to discharge liquid waste into its waters, residents of three provinces numbering in the thousands rallied Friday in Pictou, N.S. read full story https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-thousands-of-atlantic-canada-residents-from-three-provinces-protest-n/

If the intent of the #NoPipe Land and Sea Rally in Pictou Friday was to send a message to government and Northern Pulp that people will not tolerate a treated effluent pipe going into the Northumberland Strait than organizers have realized their goal. full story: http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1582459-protesters-rally-against-northern-pulp-effluent-pipe

This Marine Sidescan Sonar photo showing a collapsed pier on the Pictou harbour’s Pictou Landing side. The purple is Northern Pulp’s proposed pipeline route which will now have to be altered. - Contributed Sonar study showed proposed location would not work The route and outfall location for Northern Pulp’s proposed treated effluent pipe will not be able to go where the company initially planned. Kathy Cloutier, Paper Excellence Director of Corporate Communications, confirmed