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NORTHERN PULP’S “POLITICAL GAME”

The story of the bleached kraft pulp mill in Pictou County, which has already dragged on for 53 years, is coming to a nail-biting climax....

Concerned groups urge Nova Scotia to reject Northern Pulp’s plan to pump effluent into strait

The Northern Pulp mill’s plan to pump treated wastewater into the Northumberland Strait lacks information and minimizes the risk to...

Hundreds march in Pictou Landing in support of Northern Pulp deadline

Hundreds donned red T-shirts to the march in Pictou Landing Friday. (Craig Paisley/CBC) Dressed in red T-shirts, more than 300 people...

OPINION: #NoPipe activists won’t pipe down

Fishermen Mike and Wayne Noel. OPINION: RONNIE HEIGHTON Lobster traps are out of the water now, as fishermen along the Northumberland...

Northern Pulp expects to have report ordered by province ready by September

Officials with the company that owns the Northern Pulp mill in Pictou County have told their employees they expect to complete the...

Province says it needs more details to make decision on Northern Pulp effluent plan

Caribou Island fisherman Allan MacCarthy said he was pleased with the minister's decision. (Allison Devereaux/CBC) The Nova Scotia...

NORTHERN PULP’S ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTS: MISSING MERCURY, A PULP MILL THAT NEVER WAS, AND OODLES OF

Cover photo: “Point D,” where treated Northern Pulp wastewater currently flows from Boat Harbour into the Northumberland Strait, just a...

Environmental lawyer says correspondence inside Northern Pulp contradicts company claims to the publ

The Northern Pulp mill is seen in Abercrombie Point in 2014, with the Town of Pictou in the background. - File - The Chronicle Herald...

N.S. group seeks data on effluent leak from Northern Pulp pipeline

The province is yet to release information about a leak from Northern Pulp's effluent treatment pipe on Oct. 21. (Nic Meloney/CBC) A...

Nova Scotia First Nation starts official countdown on Boat Harbour

PICTOU, N.S. — A Nova Scotia First Nation is taking a pointedly direct approach to ensuring that a highly polluted waste water treatment...