Dr Meg Sears, Chair of Prevent Cancer Now submitted a 65 page document citing her concerns with the Northern Pulp Environmental Assessment.

In summary, the current Environmental Assessment lacks:

Data and analysis regarding some unmentioned and unaddressed hazards, particularly mercury, associated with the Canso Chemicals Ltd. legacy landfill as well as mercury spilled into bedrock beyond the landfills. This includes an underground mercury plume, and related risks to drinking water and the surrounding environment, biota and all who may consume affected foods. Precise locations are unclear and the Canso legacy is not mentioned in EA Registration documentation, but the landfill abuts or overlaps the proposed effluent treatment facility

Sufficient information to establish baseline environmental conditions in terms of mill operations and emissions (in part because the oxygen delignification equipment, a key component promised to the public, and important for pollution reduction, is not yet in place), as well as contamination of the environment, ecosystems and foods

Sufficient information to establish baseline health and contamination of the surrounding lands, water, biota and populations

Click on the link to see her concerns, the science and the source: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/b61814_beb39dbedc1142f9a80bd6c4013fc490.pdf