Nova Scotia Power’s largest industrial customer says it shouldn’t be responsible for paying down any part of a $500-million federal bailout of the utility. Port Hawkesbury Paper (PHP) filed an application with the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board asking for clarity on its role in repaying the federally backed loan and associated costs. “It would be unfair, unduly discriminatory and seriously adverse to PHP to require PHP to pay additional future costs,” the company said in its submission. The federal bailout came after several years of Nova Scotia Power deferring some charges to its customers, accumulating hundreds of millions of dollars in what it calls unrecovered fuel costs. The paper mill, however, said it paid for all its fuel and power costs up front unlike other customers. Therefore, it says, it didn’t contribute to the circumstances around the bailout and shouldn’t incur any more charges.