Nova Scotia’s Public Works Minister and Queens MLA Kim Masland won’t commit to supporting a new mill in Queens County until she has more information.
The Nova Scotia government announced last Thursday that Paper Excellence Canada, the company that operated the former pollution-prone Northern Pulp mill in Pictou County, is looking at the possibility of opening a new mill in Queens County.
Masland says the area desperately needs the jobs and economic activity a mill could bring. Still, she wants to make sure that if one is built, it is done according to the highest environmental standards.
The company plans to conduct a feasibility study that could take nine months. It’s part of an agreement between the province and Paper Excellence to settle the company’s $450-million lawsuit it filed after the mill shut down in 2020.
