The Nova Scotia government will bid on the assets of Northern Pulp, which include extensive timberlands. Potential bidders had a deadline of Nov. 20 to declare their intentions. Government officials confirmed the plan. The Northern Pulp mill at Abercrombie Point in Pictou County ceased operations in January 2020 after the company failed to get environmental approval for a new effluent treatment facility. …In August, a BC Supreme Court Justice approved an initial bid of $104 million for the company assets, which include about 162,000 hectares of timberland, and a nursery and seed orchard in Debert. That initial bid from an Ontario-based company called Macer Forest Holdings Inc., would have stood up in the absence of any other parties declaring an interest by Thursday’s deadline. With the provincial government making it at least two parties in the process, Macer’s bid will be the starting point for an auction to be held Nov. 27.