By early next week, only the wood waste boiler will continue to operate to provide heat for the facility to protect against freeze and enable cleanup of equipment.

The mill's parent company, Paper Excellence, is facing a January 2020 deadline under provincial legislation to shut down a treatment facility that sends effluent into the Boat Harbour lagoon near a Mi'kmaq community.

Lawyers for the Northern Pulp mill are due in Nova Scotia Supreme Court today to seek an injunction that would prevent fishermen from blocking survey boats hired to examine a route for an effluent pipeline.