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Despite the closure of the NewPage Mill in Port Hawkesbury, NS, Nova Scotia Power (NSP) says it will move forward with plans to build a $200 million 60 megawatt biomass cogeneration plant on site. The plan to build the facility was negotiated prior to the pulp mill’s closure in September 2011. “The initial plan called for Nova Scotia Power to fund the project, which would be built and operated by NewPage,” wrote the Chronicle Herald t...

Three months after the closure of the NewPage mill in Port Hawkesbury, NS, four companies interested in purchasing the shuttered mill are due to submit their final bids this week. Though two of the bidders remain unnamed, the CBC says that Paper Excellence Canada and Stern Partners Inc. are the other parties who are vying for the mill and – should they win – are expected to maintain the mill as some sort of paper manufacturing facility. Th...

Only two months after the closure of a large pulp and paper mill in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, another prominent paper mill is facing a similar threat. AbitibiBowater announced this week it would close its mill just outside of Liverpool, NS if they cannot come up with a strategy that could help it survive. "We talked about weeks for plans to be in place and developed to address the various challenges. So there is a great sense of urgency...

After the closure of a large pulp and paper mill in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, industry leaders throughout the Maritimes are signaling out a key tactic that can save the region’s struggling forestry sector: innovation. Mark Arsenault, executive director and CEO of New Brunswick’s Forest Products Association says that mills in his province have been actively seeking new techniques, new product developments and new innovations for years i...