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A lone boot rests on mill workers' lockers at the Northern Pulp mill where over 300 jobs remain in the balance in the rural Nova Scotia town.
According to a union-sponsored study, the economic fallout would be massive for the province's rural areas should the mill close for not reaching the environmental requirements.
Close to 2,700 jobs would be lost, including Unifor's 220 unionized employees at Northern Pulp, the study concluded. Three of Nova Scotia's five largest sawmills would close virtually overnight, and "many woodlots would not be harvested, and prices would drop for those that are," the analysis warned.