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Corporate shell game

Northern Pulp seeks protection from creditors in a BC court — and its largest creditor is its owner, Paper Excellence

July 19, 2020 By Joan Baxter 10 Comments

Northern Pulp — the mill in Pictou County — has gone into hibernation. And Northern Pulp — the company — is “insolvent.” It is one of seven related companies petitioning for creditor protection in the British Columbia Supreme Court, while it seeks “a plan of compromise or arrangement.” The petitioners seeking relief from debt payments, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News Tagged With: 1057863 B.C. Limited, Asia Pulp and Paper, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Bruce Chapman, Canso Chemicals, Catalyst Paper Corporation, Chetwynd Mechanical Pulp Inc., Chronicle Herald, corporate tax haven index, corporate welfare, deforestation, Ed Roste, Eduardo Bolsonaro, Eka Tjipta Widjaja, Euromomey, Euromoney, Forbes, former Premier John Hamm, Globe and Mail, Greenpeace, Hardi Wardhana, Hervey Investment B.V., Howe Sound Pulp and paper, Indonesia, Inter-corporate Ownership index, Jackson Widjaja, Jan Willem van Gelder, MacKenzie Pulp Inc., Mattell, Meadow Lake Mechanical Pulp, Mongabay, Netherlands, Northern Pulp, Northern pulp creditor protection, Northern Pulp loans, Northern Pulp Mill, Northern Resources Nova Scotia Corporation, Northern Timber, Paper Excellence, Paper Excellence B.V., Paper Excellence Canada Holdings Corporation, Pedro Chang, Petra Spaargaren, Prince Albert Pulp Inc., Reuters, Sinar Mas Group, Singapore, Skoomkumchuck Pulp Inc., Sugiarto Kardiman, Supreme Court of British Columbia, tax havens, Tax Justice Network, Tejuh Widjaja, Unifor

Northern Pulp Mill’s missing environmental data

The mill says its effluent comfortably meets federal regulations, but a new study published by Dalhousie researchers suggests there is no way to know.

July 8, 2019 By Joan Baxter 1 Comment

Cover photo courtesy Gerard James Halfyard. If Premier Stephen McNeil is wavering on the Northern Pulp / Paper Excellence file, entertaining notions on amending the Boat Harbour Act so that effluent from the Pictou County pulp mill can continue to flow into the lagoon after January 31, 2020, he would do well to put off […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: Alison Reilander, Boat Harbour, Boat Harbour Act, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA), Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Canso Chemicals, Chief Andrea Paul, chlorine, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, dioxins and furans, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), environmental studies, Friends of the Northumberland Strait, Gerard James Halfyard, Jessica Romo, Matt Dort, Meenakshi Chaudhary, mercury, Minister Margaret Miller, Northern Pulp Mill, Northumberland Strait, Pictou Harbour, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), Premier Stephen McNeil, Pulp and Paper Effluent Regulations (PPER), Terri Fraser, Tony R. Walker

Nova Scotia has a mercury problem

Facilities associated with Northern Pulp Mill's proposed effluent pipe are immediately adjacent to a mercury-contaminated toxic waste site left over from the Canso Chemicals operation

April 9, 2019 By Joan Baxter 1 Comment

Cover photo: A Mad Tea-Party by Lewis Carroll with the Hatter, March Hare and Alice. It turns out that using a lot of mercury, as human beings have done for centuries — in everything from haberdashery to gold production to medicine — wasn’t such a great idea after all. Although this realization came only in […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: Abercrombie Point, Adele Poirier, Canso Chemicals, David Depew, Dillon Consulting, Domtar, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), erithism mercurialis, Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan (FCSAP), gold mines, Grassy Narrows First Nation, Liberal Party fundraiser, Linda M Campbell, mercury, mine tailings, Minimata Convention on Mercury, Minimata disease, Neil M Burgess, Northern Pulp Mill, Nova Scotia Environment (NSE), Olin Corporation, Paper Excellence, Peter Hodson, Pictou Harbour, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Reed Paper, United Nations Environment (UNEP), Wabaseemoong First Nation, Wabigoon River

Northern Pulp Mill sues fishermen

December 5, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

Northern Pulp Mill is suing seven named and “various other” unnamed fishermen who the company says have blockaded survey boats from conducting the surveys necessary to route a pipe from the mill into the Northumberland Strait. Named as defendants are Edwin Donald Shaw, Allan Francis MacCarthy, Chad MacCarthy, Daryl Wayne Bowen, Ben Anderson, Paul Scott […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Allan Francis MacCarthy, Ben Anderson, Boat Harbour Act, Bradley Elmer MacDonald, Bruce Chapman, Chad MacCarthy, Colin Toole, Daryl Wayne Bowen, Edward Donald Shaw, Glen Gilbert, Harvey Morrison, Minister Catherine McKenna, NoPipe demonstrations, Northern Pulp Mill, Paul Scott Musick, PEI Premier Wade MacLauchlan, Ryan Baxter

We have no idea how many innocent people are sitting in Canadian prisons

Morning File, Thursday, July 5, 2018

July 5, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. ExxonMobil continues plans to shutter the offshore Yesterday, ExxonMobil asked the Utilities and Review Board (UARB) for permission to shut down and abandon its Point Tupper Fractionation Plant. This follows a March application to the National Energy Board to close and abandon the Goldboro Gas Plant. ExxonMobil says the Sable Offshore Energy Project (SOEP) is “in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: #NOPIPE Land & Sea Rally, ACOA, affordable housing, Allan MacCarthy, Bobby Jenkins, Chief Andrea Paul, ExxonMobil, Jason Flom, Krista Fulton, Matt Dort, Mayor Jim Ryan, Michael Tutton, Northern Pulp Mill, Novaporte, Point Tupper Fractionation Plant, Police Chief Jean-Michel Blais, Sable Offshore Energy Project (SOEP), second container port fantasy, Stephen Archibald and Fort Beausejour, UARB, Wes Surrett, wrongful convictions, Zane Woodford

Examineradio 149: Linda Pannozzo on the Northern Pulp mill

March 9, 2018 By Terra Tailleur 2 Comments

This week, journalist Linda Pannozzo discusses her latest investigation into the Northern Pulp mill. Plus, we discuss the convention centre, racism reports at schools and Abdoul Abdi. (Direct download) (RSS feed) (Subscribe via iTunes)

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured, Investigation, Journalism, News, Province House Tagged With: Examineradio 149, Linda Pannozzo, Northern Pulp Mill, podcast

Examineradio, episode #144: Joan Baxter and The Mill

January 26, 2018 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

This week we speak with Joan Baxter, author of The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest, about the Northern Pulp Mill, provincial forestry practices, the threat to the Northumberland Strait lobster fishery, and what it’s like having a big corporation shut down your book signing. Also: what’s with the Jamie Baillie resignation? (Direct download) […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Examineradio 144, Jamie Baillie resignation, Joan Baxter, Northern Pulp Mill, podcast, provincial forestry practices

All the woes of the world: Morning File, Wednesday, January 24, 2018

January 24, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 15 Comments

News 1. Mainstreets Plan “Sometime in the 70s we should have hit peak ‘designing for the car’ days, because it was around then that people started to realize the pickle we were getting ourselves into by doing strictly that,” writes Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler: But the reality is we just kept designing that way for […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: abortion pill in NS, Anne Farries, Another north end Dartmouth homicide, Avis Glaze, Barbara Darby, Brett Bundale, crying wolf, Deborah Irene Yorke, electronic voting, Keith Doucette, minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna, murders in north end dartmouth map, Northern Pulp Mill, Premier Stephen McNeil, Premier Wade MacLauchlan, seven school boards be scrapped, Stephen Archibald and Dockyard Clock, Ursula K. Le Guin

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Phyllis Rising — Rebecca Falvey (left) and Meg Hubley. Photo submitted

Episode #19 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Meg Hubley and Rebecca Falvey met as theatre kids at Neptune and have been friends ever since. As Phyllis Rising — that’s right, Mary Tyler Moore hive — they’re making films, plays, and are in production on The Crevice, a three-part sitcom streaming live from the Bus Stop in March. They stop by to talk with Tara about its development, their shared love of classic SNL and 90s sitcoms, and the power of close friendship. Plus: A new song from a new band.

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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Uncover: Dead Wrong

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

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