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Nova Scotia's Northern Pulp mill facing pollution charge after effluent leak

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Nova Scoita Pulp not off the Hook

Even though the smell and smog spewing out of Northern Pulp has faded this summer, a Pictou activist group remains skeptical the pulp mill's emissions will stay out of their lungs for long.

"It's not a big issue in the town of Pictou any more, except for the people who comment, 'Oh isn't this nice we can breathe today and the sun is shining with blue sky and blue water,'" said Anne Emmett of Clean the Mill

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Our Concerns

Our group has numerous concerns about the pulp mill at Abercrombie Point, Pictou County, NS.

The first two concerns – health and economy – are those things that many people intuitively recognize as wrong with the mill and thus represent the reasons that cleaning up the mill are important. Concerns about the health of the community and the local economy provided the impetus for looking into Northern Pulp operations in greater detail and thus revealed the three critical concerns – standards, compliance and Boat Harbour.

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Our footprint extends beyond our forestry operations. We play a vital supporting role in the communities in which we operate. From employment and education to communities events and initiatives, Northern Pulp is a proud Nova Scotian corporate citizen.

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We provide thousands of jobs for Nova Scotians.

230 direct employees: Unionized, high-paying skilled labour

Thousands of other jobs depend on Northern Pulp

We will pay approximately $63 million for chips and bark in 2010

We will pay private contractors approximately $53 million in 2010

We'll also spend approximately $13 million for stumpage

Contractors are family based operations who have invested over $50 million in equipment purchases predicated on Northern Pulp's success

Northern Pulp scholarships at NSCC awarded

Trees For Kids Campaign

Teaching the Next Generation

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Our customers demand higher standards that prove the product we provide is sourced from environmentally responsible forest management

Northern Pulp meets provincial and federal laws and regulations, and performs well beyond them.

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We follow multiple international environmental/forest management standards – standards developed by scientists, environmentalists, and foresters

Our scientific-based forest management plans ensure perpetual wood supply for operations

We harvest less than 3 percent of the trees we manage each year

Our management plan decisions are supported by years of academic and industry research

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What we do

We manufacture pulp. Our product is derived from wood fibre that is used in all types of paper products. We supply our customers around the world with pulp to manufacture common household products such as tissue, towel, and toilet paper along with writing and photocopy paper.

We manufacture 275,000 tonnes of pulp, primarily for export, every year, supporting thousands of jobs throughout Nova Scotia

The Mill operates approximately 353 days per year

Since 1998, over $98 million has been invested in the Mill to ensure safety, efficiency and productivity

The Mill is predominantly self-sufficient with an internal power generation facility which produces over 90% of our electricity requirements

Our product is recognized in the market for its high quality, due to its strong tensile strength and low coarseness properties

The Pictou Mill is ideally located to end-markets and has long-term access to high quality fibre (hardwood and softwood)

We are the largest consumer of wood fibre in Nova Scotia