Federal minister signs off on Nova Scotia’s Boat Harbour cleanup plan

By Michael Gorman
CBC News
January 28, 2025
Category: Business & Politics
Region: Canada, Canada East

The Nova Scotia government has a green light from Ottawa for its $425-million plan to remediate Boat Harbour, but it comes with a long list of conditions that includes continuing to look for another site to store contaminated sludge in the long term. Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault issued his decision last Friday following an environmental assessment by the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, work that began almost six years ago for the cleanup of the body of water near Pictou Landing First Nation that for decades received effluent from the Northern Pulp mill. Under terms of the approval, an existing on-site hazardous waste containment facility would be vertically expanded. …The cleanup project follows the shutdown of the former Northern Pulp mill at Abercrombie Point in 2020. …Northern Pulp’s parent company is currently exploring the potential of establishing a new operation in the Liverpool area.

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