Category Archives: Pulp & Paper

While we wait for “The Report”, it’s the same old same old from our two Nova Scotia pulp mills; and some thoughts on what the Independent Review will recommend

Posted on June 28, 2018 by admin

While we wait in some kind of suspended animation for the Report from the Independent Review of Forest Practices following the last formal comment on April 30, 2018, the two major drivers of dissatisfaction with forestry practices in Nova Scotia – … Continue reading →

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Nova Scotia math: FOIPOP reveals PHP pays $3.1 million in stumpage fees, gets $4.4 million for silviculture

Posted on May 26, 2018 by admin

Government, industry won’t to release stats on returns from Crown Land harvests; similarly mum on composition of feedstocks for the PHP biomass boiler Bob Bancroft has often said that in Nova Scotia we get next to nothing from Port Hawkesbury … Continue reading →

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#NOPIPE

Posted on May 26, 2018 by admin

The Friends of Northumberland Strait are asking people who are concerned about Northern Pulp’s plan to pump treated mill effluent directly into the Northumberland Strait for some help: write Catherine McKenna, the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change to … Continue reading →

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Pipes versus Environment challenge Liberal governments in Ottawa and Nova Scotia (and the rest of us)

Posted on May 22, 2018 by admin

A Canadian Press article in today’s Chronicle Herald, The growing impatience of an industry town: ‘This has really created tension’ about The Pipe proposed for the Northern Pulp Mill in Pictou, and a Reader’s Corner letter – Vote pipeline in … Continue reading →

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Matt Dort’s Petition to Save The Northumberland Strait – Protect our Atlantic Salmon and Sea Trout gains momentum

Posted on May 10, 2018 by admin

After listening to an interview with Matt Dort, I wanted both to drive to Pictou to protest, and buy a fishing rod! The petition Save The Northumberland Strait – Protect our Atlantic Salmon and Sea Trout, started by Northumberland shore … Continue reading →

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Letters, Op-eds and news items May 1-5, 2018

Posted on May 5, 2018 by admin

On clearcutting, The Mill, biomass and carbon emissions, and politicans tripping over themseleves on environmental issues There has been a steady stream of letters, op-eds, news items related to forests and forestry over the past week. It’s hard to keep … Continue reading →

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Nova Scotia government brags about its Class 2 EA for Boat Harbour cleanup further defying the logic for a class 1 EA for The Pipe

Posted on April 28, 2018 by admin

UPDATE Apr 30, 2018: How fishers feel about the Pipe: OPINION: Pulp pipe puts fishery livelihoods on the line by Krista Fulton, Apr 28, 2018 in the Chronicle Herald On Friday, Apr 27, 2018 Environment Minister Iain Rankin announced in … Continue reading →

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Northern Pulp makes its too-big-to-fail case and I wonder about “Sponsored Content” in the Chronicle Herald

Posted on April 25, 2018 by admin

I guess “Sponsored Content” is not “fake news”, but it can detract from otherwise good journalism in mainstream newspapers & news magazines, especially in the online versions UPDATE Apr 26, 2018. The Chronicle Herald responds to questions —————- Northern Pulp … Continue reading →

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Nova Scotia’s Tidewater Pipe Impasse, continued (Apr 23, 2018)

Posted on April 23, 2018 by admin

It would be only 10 km or less, but many of the issues applying to Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain get-Alberta-oil-to-tidewater pipeline – Environment, Jobs, First Nations, different provincial jurisdictions, a government/industry agenda backed up by EAs, real or perceived deadlines … Continue reading →

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The Mill – crunch time is approaching and works to The Mill’s advantage

Posted on April 5, 2018 by admin

So here we are, time has run out and it will literally be a choice between “No Pipe/No Mill” and “Pipe in the Strait/No Mill” which has one logical outcome: No Mill (and a lot of angry people). But don’t … Continue reading →

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