Northern Pulp sues over alleged broken contract for air pollution equipment at Nova Scotia mill

Northern Pulp is suing a company it alleges walked away from a contract to design and install an air pollution control system, a move the Pictou County mill claims caused the cost of the work to substantially increase. In a statement of claim filed last week in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Halifax, Northern Pulp says it entered into an agreement on March 3, 2014, with Clyde Bergemann Canada Ltd. for the design, delivery, purchase and installation of a new recovery boiler electrostatic precipitator. The mill alleges it wasn’t until the following July that Clyde Bergemann sought bids for the project’s on-site assembly and not until Aug. 18, 2014, that it accepted a bid from Lorneville Mechanical Contractors Ltd. of Saint John, N.B.