Barge arrives at Port Hawkesbury Paper with chips from Quebec:
The new buzzing in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia today is about a barge loaded with wood chips from Quebec that arrived this week at Port Hawkesbury Paper.
There are 230 truckloads of wood chips on the barge.
Port Hawkesbury Paper said they ordered the chips when the truck drivers refused to deliver wood to the mill for a few days earlier this month, and they have no plans to continue to bring wood chips in from Quebec.
Russell Huntington, a representative from Eastern Nova Scotia Private Wood Producers is skeptical. He said many truckers, including himself, haven’t shipped wood to the mill in months.
“I haven’t shipped them a stick of wood since sometime in January, and it doesn’t seem to bother them,” he says. “There are contractors that never started back up – there’s quite a few contractors shipping all the wood up to Northern (Pulp), and their stud wood up to Scotsburn.”
