Terrace Bay Pulp fined for pollution

Terrace Bay Pulp has been filed $150,000 after the company plead guilty to fouling the air and contaminating a sewage system in two separate incidents while the plant was still running in 2008.

The fine is significant, and with just 90 days to pay, Terrace Bay Pulp is faced with another bill that stands in the way of the mill reopening.

The sewer system contamination occurred in February of 2008 when a boiler failed, spilling an undetermined amount of black liquor into the local sewer system.

In May of 2008, an air-cleaning scrubber device malfunctioned. Some mill workers and residents of the town of Terrace Bay, Ontario felt sick by the resulting sulphur smelling smog.

Buchanan owned Terrace Bay Pulp will be meeting with its creditors on June 21 with the hopes of receiving approval for a payment plan that would allow the mill to reopen in July.

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Terrace Bay Pulp fined (Chronicle Journal)