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    McNeil firm that Boat Harbour will close by January 2020
    Michael Gorman · CBC News
    • Nov 28, 2018

    McNeil firm that Boat Harbour will close by January 2020

    Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil rejected the idea that Boat Harbour could stay open longer than planned Tuesday, and said it's time for Northern Pulp and concerned community members to come up with a workable solution for treating millions of litres of effluent daily. The treatment plant at Boat Harbour is scheduled to close in January 2020 as laid out in provincial legislation passed by the Liberals in April 2015. Mill officials recently indicated they are unlikely to mee
    Independent senators tell Trudeau to act on 'dangerous' Northern Pulp plan
    By Paul Withers, CBC News Posted: Sep 19
    • Nov 27, 2018

    Independent senators tell Trudeau to act on 'dangerous' Northern Pulp plan

    The Northern Pulp mill manufactures 280,000 tonnes of kraft pulp annually and supplies pulp to manufacture common household products such as tissue, towel and toilet paper, writing and photo copy paper. (The Canadian Press) Mike Duffy is among four independent senators from Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island demanding a full federal environmental assessment of the plan to release treated pulp mill effluent into the Northumberland Strait. The senators say Northern Pulp's "da
    Northern Pulp survey boat blocked by fishing boats leaves Caribou without completing work
    AARON BESWICK THE CHRONICLE HERALD
    • Nov 20, 2018

    Northern Pulp survey boat blocked by fishing boats leaves Caribou without completing work

    The Boat Harbour treatment site processes waste water from the Northern Pulp mill, seen in the background. - File The survey boat contracted by Northern Pulp has left Caribou without finishing its work. The boat had been contracted to map the bottom for a proposed new route for Northern Pulp’s effluent pipe. Depending on who you ask, it may have left due to coming weather or because the vessel was repeatedly blocked from doing its work by a flotilla of local fisherman. “Upcom
    N.S. paper mill seeks public help, as actor Ellen Page steps up criticism
    Chronicle Herald, Canadian Press
    • Nov 16, 2018

    N.S. paper mill seeks public help, as actor Ellen Page steps up criticism

    PICTOU, N.S. — A Nova Scotia pulp mill is asking for public support for more time to build an effluent pipeline to the ocean, even as one of the province's best-known Hollywood actors steps up her criticism of the plant. Kathy Cloutier, a spokeswoman for parent company Paper Excellence, said the Northern Pulp mill is hoping people and groups in the province's forestry industry will issue public declarations in support of an extension for the effluent pipe project. She said pe

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