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Good riddance, 2020!

January 6, 2021January 6, 2021Pictou Advocate

It was a year dominated by COVID-19 globally, and punctuated by tragedy in Nova Scotia. We are not sad to see it behind us! As in previous years, we’ve put together a list of the past year’s top news stories, those picked by staff and those picked by our readers, from Facebook. Read on for...

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‘Green’ business proposal could spell jobs for county

February 6, 2020February 6, 2020Jackie Jardine

To say that the chairman of Pictou County Chamber is excited about a new business prospect for the community is an understatement. Blair van Veld is over the moon. The prospect is an investment proposal that comes from an international consortium represented by British businessman Richard Spinks who wants to develop a second generation biomass...

Mill files Supreme Court challenge

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020Pictou Advocate

ABERCROMBIE – Northern Pulp filed a motion in Supreme Court of Nova Scotia today. The company is challenging Environment Minister Gordon Wilson’s decision requiring an Environmental Assessment Report for the company’s proposed effluent treatment facility. It filed a request with the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia for a judicial review of Wilson’s Dec. 17, 2019,...

Northern Pulp curtails operations

January 13, 2020January 13, 2020Pictou Advocate

AERCROMBIE – On Saturday, Jan. 11, Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation began the orderly wind down of operations to meet the impending deadline of January 31, 2020 imposed by the Boat Harbour Act. By early this week, only the wood waste boiler will continue to operate to provide heat for the facility to protect against...

Northern Pulp to continue environmental assessment process

January 9, 2020January 9, 2020Pictou Advocate

Northern Pulp has informed the Department of Environment that it will continue the environmental assessment process for its proposed effluent treatment plant. “Since the company has chosen to carry on with the environmental assessment process, we are legally required to continue,” said Environment Minister Gordon Wilson. “I want to assure Nova Scotians that, as Premier...

Outcome “horrible”: Unifor

December 21, 2019December 20, 2019Pictou Advocate

HALIFAX – Unifor members at Northern Pulp are devastated following the announcement by Premier Stephen McNeil that he will not allow enough time for the company to complete the regulatory assessment requested by his own government. “In all my years of doing this work I have never seen an elected official gut a rural industry,...

Premier says no to Boat Harbour Act extension

December 20, 2019December 20, 2019Pictou Advocate

Preimer Stephen McNeil says there will be no extension to Boat Harbour Act. “The company had five years to do the right thing and I was hoping it wouldn’t come to this, he said. The company failed to respect the time lines given to them five years ago. McNeil annunced a $50 million transition fund...

FONS launches campaign to support Boat Harbour closure

September 18, 2019September 17, 2019Pictou Advocate

PICTOU — Friends of the Northumberland Strait are expanding the reach of their message. Billboards depicting the reality of Boat Harbour and calling on Premier Stephen McNeil and all Nova Scotia MLAs to keep the promise to close Boat Harbour on Jan. 31, 2020 are greeting motorists in locations throughout Halifax Regional Municipality. The billboards...

Northern Pulp seeks extension

February 6, 2019Chris Muise

The clock is ticking for the Boat Harbour wastewater treatment facility in Pictou Landing. The Boat Harbour Act passed in 2015 stipulates that the facility must be closed by the end of January next year. Northern Pulp, however, is seeking an extension. The company, alongside the Paper Excellence Group, held a press conference in Halifax...

Countdown begins

January 31, 2019Heather Brimicombe

The Pictou Landing First Nation gym was packed full of community members and supporters this morning to celebrate the official one year countdown date to the closing of the Northern Pulp Boat Harbor Treatment Plant. Red shirts speckled the crowd as people collected and put on the T-shirts that read “honour the Boat Harbour Act”...

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