A claim that electricity customers will pay
an extra $7 million a year to operate a new biomass plant because a Cape Breton
paper mill needs the steam is wrong, says the mill’s would-be owner.
Pacific West Commercial Corp. called the
figure, included in a regulatory filing last week by the Avon Group of
companies, an “erroneous assertion.”
The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia approved a
plan Wednesday that would see 11 municipalities paid about $3 million in
outstanding property taxes if the sale of the idle NewPage Port Hawkesbury
paper mill is approved.
