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Former Smurfit-Stone mill cleanup case delayed again in court

A company charged with failing to cleanup the former Smurfit-Stone mill site in Bathurst and with violating environmental codes is now scheduled to make its first court appearance on the charges on Dec. 7.

Bathurst Redevelopment Inc. now scheduled to make first court appearance on Dec. 7

The Bathurst mill site has yet to be cleaned up by current owner Raymond Robichaud, who acquired the property in 2015 (City of Bathurst)

A company charged with failingto cleanup the former Smurfit-Stone mill site in Bathurst, and with violating environmental codes, is now scheduled to make its first court appearance on the charges on Dec. 7.

Bathurst Redevelopment Inc., a Canadian subsidiary of Green Investment Group, was to make its first court appearance in Bathurst court on Monday.

A company representative in the United States has received a copy of a summons that was sent by registered mail.

The company is asking for four weeks to prepare paperwork on the charge, so the case was adjourned to Dec. 7.

The Crown prosecutor said Monday he is not expecting any representatives from the company to be present in court on Dec. 7

The Smurfit-Stone corrugated paper mill shut down suddenly in August 2005 andput 270 people out of work.

Green Investment Group bought the former mill property in 2010 and created a Canadian affiliate, Bathurst Redevelopment Inc.

Company officials promised a "green cleanup" of the site, but instead the facility was stripped of valuable metalsand machines, and left as an eyesore that is still contaminated by decades of mill activity.

There are almost a $1 million in back taxes and environmental reclamation costs associated with the former mill site.