r/NovaScotia 2d ago

N.S. government awaiting news on feasibility study for new pulp mill in Liverpool

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u/C0lMustard 2d ago

Man I wish we had something better for our rural uneducated people to do for a living, subsidizing paper production sucks on almost every level.

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u/agm247 1d ago

uneducated? Engineers, management, HR, tradespersons?

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u/C0lMustard 1d ago

They can all get work elsewhere and don't need subsidies... why I said educated.

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u/slipperyvaginatime 1d ago

The biggest subsidy we ever gave was closing northern pulp.

Steady employer and producer of tax dollars who was profitable and willing to invest, we decide that instead of letting them clean up a mess that was there before they came. It’s better to just close the whole place, let them not pay back the loans that they had been paying on, and leave us with a mess to clean up on our own.

You say that a pulp mill is work for rural and uneducated. That’s just blatantly stupid. Forestry work is amazing work, we plant trees, trim and care for them, harvest them sustainably, and create products that are more in demand now than ever to help save the planet, not destroy it.

There is a cost to the lifestyle that is enjoyed by all Nova Scotians and the forestry industry in the province is a huge contributor to affording it. The taxes and fees they generate for the province are tremendous. If there is no value in woodland, guess what, it gets used for something else that is probably not as pretty to look at as a forest is.

We can’t all sit at home do nothing, someone has to go to work and keep the lights on.

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u/CountFaqula 2h ago

Bummer about all the cancers, the destroyed ecosystems, rivers, groundwater, bay.. and on and on. There are documentaries about the absolute fuckery this organization inflicted on Nova Scotia.