While the provincial government frequently issues press releases about investments big and small, none was released detailing a $6-million payment to Northern Pulp last year. (CBC/Craig Paisley) Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil insisted Thursday there was no attempt to hide a $6-million payment last year to Northern Pulp, despite the fact his government only disclosed the information as a single-line item in a 351-page document on July 26.\ The payment is contained in volum

The province is paying for at least part of the design of Northern Pulp’s new effluent treatment facility. Tucked into the supplementary information of the Public Accounts document is a grant of $6,001,238.13 to Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation from the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal. It’s for designing the facility that another arm of the provincial government will conduct an environmental assessment on. Ronnie Heighton thinks there’s a problem