The mediation that put the legal wrangling over Northern Pulp’s future on ice will wrap up by the end of November. What happens then will depend on whether ...
The Northern Pulp mill in Abercrombie Point, Pictou County. - Aaron Beswick / FileThe mediation that put the legal wrangling over Northern Pulp’s future on ice will wrap up by the end of November.
The first public declaration on its progress or lack thereof came this week in a filing by Northern Pulp to have creditor protection extended to Nov. 30 . The only other hint at how mediation is going, beyond the above-mentioned note that’s ending with a possibility of no resolution, is that Northern Pulp halted survey studies by a contractor this spring that would have contributed to the filing for an environmental assessment of its proposed new effluent treatment plant and mill modernization.
Northern Pulp's proposed $350-million revamp would include a new effluent treatment plant to replace the one at Boat Harbour owned by the provincial government that is supposed to undergo a now-delayed remediation. The mill would also add an oxygen delignification process that it says, along with other in-mill changes, will reduce the use of bleaching chemicals by 50 per cent, reduce natural gas use by 83 per cent and reduce water consumption by nearly half to 45,000 cubic metres per day.
The mill filed a $450-million lawsuit against the province in November 2021 for lost profits and damages, alleging a conspiracy by high-level government bureaucrats to force the mill's closure by setting unachievable targets in the industrial approval process and then through timelines associated with the Boat Harbour Act.
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