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The Mountaineer reports: A discharge permit required for Blue Ridge Paper Products, doing business as Evergreen Packing, Inc. in Canton that expired in October 2006 should be ready for public review soon. A hearing… is likely to be held in the county in January….
In past years, the mill has asked for a variance on the allowable color standards imposed by North Carolina law ... but Chernikov [from NC NRCD Dept] said that variance wasn’t needed for the permit now being considered…
Hope Taylor, who works with the Clean Water for NC organization, accused the N.C. DENR’s Division of Water…
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