Lois Corbett, Executive Director for the Conservation Council of New Brunswick, was quoted in an interview on CBC’s Information morning with Terry Seguin published on Oct 19, as saying that the Twin Rivers pulp and paper mill in Edmundston should have done a better job at notifying people it had a leak.
“The company to its credit did likely do everything that was written down,” said Corbett in the interview.
“But it’s one thing for it to fax in a piece of paper about the details of a spill to a regional civil servant. It’s another thing to come clean with its neighbours.”
The Twin Rivers plant in Edmundston, N.B., has released chlorine dioxide gas five times since June.
The company says that the amount of the chemical that has spilled, used to bleach pulp, poses no long-term health risks.
Nonetheless, Corbett told CBC, “When a large industrial facility operates in New Brunswick, we should know what the rules are and what our government is doing to make sure the company tells its neighbours what’s going on.”
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