Photo: Joan BaxterĪs the Halifax Examiner reported on November 26 this year, as of 2020 Northern Pulp still owed the people of Nova Scotia nearly $85 million from outstanding loans, of which almost $65 million is from the loan for all that land that is owned by the Northern Pulp affiliate, Northern Timber. Northern Pulp land near the site of the proposed Beaver Dam mine being clearcut in advance. That’s the end of the quiz, but certainly isn’t the end of the story. Question #3: How did the owners of the pulp mill get their hands on all this precious land in Nova Scotia?Īnswer: Because Nova Scotians loaned the mill owners $75 million to buy a huge chunk of land - 475,000 acres - in the province, land that had belonged to the mill’s previous owner, Neenah Paper. Question #2: Why and how does the Paper Excellence company Northern Pulp, which owns the shuttered pulp mill in Pictou County (and has threatened to sue Nova Scotia for hundreds of millions of dollars in lost profits), stand to profit from gold mines in HRM, and a big wind project in Cumberland County?Īnswer: Because Northern Pulp owns land where those projects are or will be operating, and is collecting rent on land it leases to the respective companies - Atlantic Mining Nova Scotia or its predecessor Atlantic Gold for the mines, and to a partnership of three private Canadian energy companies behind the proposed Higgins Mountain Wind Farm in Wentworth. Atlantic Mining Nova Scotia’s open pit Touquoy gold mine at Moose River.

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