Unifor hired Gardner Pinfold Consulting to run the numbers, and to nobody’s surprise, the loss of Northern Pulp will be a big hit for rural Nova Scotia. Workers at the mill and in spinoff jobs earn some $128 million per year, and tax revenues generated amount to almost $40 million. Some 1500 companies in rural Nova Scotia depend on Northern Pulp.
Unifor’s solution is to demand that Northern Pulp be allowed to start work on the treatment plant now, even though the environmental assessment of its proposal, which includes a highly controversial discharge into the Northumberland Strait, is still pending and many questions remain.
There you have it. Problem solved.