The pandemic has intensified a crisis the industry was already going through in the Maritimes after the closure of the Northern Pulp mill.

Robin Wilber, president of the Elmsdale Lumber Company, told Global News he received a call on Monday evening notifying him that he was being removed from the team.

Stephen McNeil has announced a $50-million transition fund for those affected by the shut-down including the more than 300 people who work at the mill. 

Gordon Wilson says the province doesn't have enough information to determine if the Northern Pulp project will harm the environment.

Nova Scotia Environment Minister Gordon Wilson has three options before him: reject the pipeline proposal outright, accept it with conditions or ask for further information.

The province's environment minister has until Tuesday to decide whether to approve Northern Pulp's proposal for a new wastewater facility.

"Northern Pulp's conclusion that there will be no significant lasting harm to the environment or human health is not credible or supported by science."

The deadline is ticking down for the Northern Pulp mill in Pictou County to stop sending effluent into a lagoon near a Mi'kmaq community.

The mill's parent company is facing a January 2020 deadline, and it has warned the mill will be shut down unless it can dump its waste water directly into the Northumberland Strait.

The prime minister says the project is a provincial issue, but he says the federal government will look for ways to support Nova Scotia.