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Lack of public consultation ahead of Northern Pulp’s submission of Environmental assessment sparks b

Northern Pulp’s decision not to hold public consultations before filing its environmental assessment has received blowback from groups...

‘Nothing lives in Boat Harbour’: Pictou Landing First Nation Chief Andrea Paul seeks allies on Picto

PICTOU COUNTY, N.S. — Pictou Landing First Nation Chief Andrea Paul never had the opportunity to see Boat Harbour before a dam was put in...

N.S. prepares for worst on controversial pulp mill: 'No easy solution here'

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's premier says he's keenly aware of the continuing need to diversify the province's economy in 2019, especially...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Survey boat mapping Northern Pulp effluent pipe forced back to shore

Boats are docked at Pier C in Pictou where a vessel surveying the proposed route for Northern Pulp’s effluent pipe was forced by...

The fight to keep a pulp mill from poisoning the Northumberland Strait

A Mi’kmaq fisherman arrives in Pictou Harbour to protest the pulp mill’s plan to dump millions of litres of effluent daily into the...

Ecojustice joins fight against Northern Pulp's effluent plan

The Northern Pulp plant at Abercrombie Point, Pictou County. - Aaron Beswick The Friends of the Northumberland Strait have recruited...