Northern Pulp decision

Northern Pulp: planning the future five years too late

I don’t want to criticize Stephen McNeil’s announcement Friday. It was hard to watch without feeling just how emotionally wrenching and personally difficult it had been for him. He was genuinely caught between the rock of an important and necessary promise he had made to the Pictou Landing First Nation and the hard place of knowing keeping his promise would mean the end of vital jobs for workers at Northern Pulp and beyond in the province’s forest industry. But the thing is… Should it really have come to this?

December 21, 2019 By Stephen Kimber 1 Comment

When it comes to identifying all its political, social and economic consequences and parsing the larger meaning of Friday’s history-making, future-shaking decision by Premier Stephen McNeil to order Northern Pulp to finally “stop pumping effluent in Boat Harbour,” I am grateful to defer to my smarters. Joan Baxter, Linda Pannozzo, Jennifer Henderson and Tim Bousquet […]

Premier Stephen McNeil delays Northern Pulp decision until Friday

December 18, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

Premier Stephen McNeil just issued the following statement: PREMIER’S OFFICE–Premier Issues Statement, to Hold Media Availability Friday, Dec. 20 —————————————————————- NOTE: The following is a statement from Premier Stephen McNeil in response to the Minister of Environment’s decision on Northern Pulp’s proposed effluent treatment plant. —————————————————————- I would like to thank the regulator, Minister Wilson […]

The Centre Plan is a colossal waste of time, money, public attention, newsprint, and reporter energy

Morning File, Wednesday, September 18, 2019

September 18, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Centre Plan A public hearing on the Centre Plan was held at City Hall yesterday, and lasted well into the night. Council will debate the various issues and presumably vote to enact the package later today. I’ve never seen such a colossal waste of time, money, public attention, newsprint, and reporter energy devoted […]

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