Catalyst Crofton & Elk Falls Face Local Issues

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Permit changes to prevent a 2013 salmon kill, while supplying Crofton mill’s water needs, is under discussion by Catalyst’s paper’s brass.

Mill manager Rob Belanger said he and his bosses are mulling a recent forest ministry recommendation that Catalyst seek an amendment to its Cowichan River water licence.

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Development of the abandoned Catalyst pulp mill property is “frozen” and the city will not have the ability to issue re-development permits any time soon, an Environment Ministry official has told the Mirror.

Senior contaminated sites officer Vincent Hanemayer says two parallel review processes are underway and until the City of Campbell River receives the appropriate sign-off from the environment ministry, the municipality’s ability to “issue demolition, subdivision rezoning, soil removal, development or development variance permits is still frozen.”