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A white billboard with red and blue lettering surrounded by trees and shrubs, that reads "Welcome to our mill. This is our time. We have the right product. We have the right owner and the right people!"
Posted inEnvironment

Northern Pulp mill plans “best in class” or best in BS?

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter December 17, 2021November 22, 2022

Northern Pulp is claiming that the changes it’s proposing for its 54-year-old pulp mill in Pictou County will make it “best in class.” Even the blurb that appears on the Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change page for the “mill transformation and effluent treatment facility project” includes the phrase “best in class.” And although Northern […]

Posted inCommentary, Environment

Why isn’t Northern Pulp using the wastewater treatment plant next door at Canso Chemicals? Is mercury an issue?

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter November 5, 2021October 20, 2022
Posted inEnvironment

Wastewater from Northern Pulp’s hibernating paper mill is being discharged into the Bay of Fundy

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter September 7, 2021November 22, 2022
Posted inEconomy

Corporate shell game

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter July 19, 2020November 16, 2022
Lobster boat with a Mi'kmaq flag moving through the waters of Pictou Harbour with the Northern Pulp mill in the background, and white plumes coming from the mill stacks into a grey sky.
Posted inEnvironment, Investigation, Province House

Northern Pulp Mill’s missing environmental data

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter July 8, 2019October 20, 2022
Posted inEnvironment

Nova Scotia has a mercury problem

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter April 9, 2019November 10, 2022
Posted inUncategorized

Here are the names and phone numbers of the contractors failing to clear your sidewalks

by Tim Bousquet March 8, 2019October 20, 2022
Map from the 2000 Dillon report on Canso Chemical decommissioning showing the site location.
Posted inCommentary, Environment, Investigation, Province House

The Canso Chemicals mystery: With the chemical plant long gone, why is the company still alive? And what about all that mercury pollution?

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter March 7, 2019October 20, 2022
An image of where the treated Northern Pulp wastewater currently flows from Boat Harbour into the Northumberland Strait, just a few hundred metres from Pictou Landing First Nation.
Posted inCommentary, Environment, Investigation, Province House

Northern Pulp’s environmental documents: missing mercury, a pulp mill that never was, and oodles of contradictions

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter March 5, 2019November 5, 2022
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In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder, and served 17 years in prison while maintaining his innocence. In 2019, he was fully exonerated.

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