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January 31, 2014

NO BIGGER PIECE OF BOWATER LAND FOR NORTHERN PULP

January 31, 2014/ RuralLife.ca

Source: AtlanticFarmer.com
Nova Scotia’s government has declined a Northern Pulp request to harvest an additional 500,000 green metric tonnes of fiber from Crown land. However, it will honor the previous NDP government’s commitment of 125,000 green tonnes per year to Northern Pulp for harvest on the former Bowater lands. There is no written commitment that the 125,000 green tonnes must come from the former Bowater land, but the expectation is that it will. The deal between the NDP government and Northern Pulp was made just after the province obtained the land as part of the $150 million buyout, and shortly before the much-touted public consultations on how the land should be used.