“Based on testing, modelling and the incorporation of mitigation activities, no significant residual impacts to marine water quality are expected to arise on any fisheries or fish habitat as a result of this project.” Continue reading →

Nova Scotians will have 30 days to share their comments as part of the environmental assessment process. Continue reading →

Company officials have said that if their plan to pipe 85 million litres of treated wastewater into the Northumberland Strait is not approved, the mill will close. Continue reading →

The company submitted its proposal for a replacement facility in February. The new plan would involve pumping effluent into the Northumberland Strait. Continue reading →

“People are now seriously asking the question ‘What is the limit to resource exploitation?'” Continue reading →

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. Continue reading →

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. Continue reading →

Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil thanked Trudeau for providing “a good start” to the costs of cleaning up a lagoon near Pictou Landing First Nation where decades of contaminated pulp mill waste has accumulated. Continue reading →

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says fishermen in areas off northern Prince Edward Island, the Northumberland Strait and western Cape Breton can set their traps beginning at 6 a.m. Friday. Continue reading →

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. Continue reading →