NDP fisheries critic Christopher Mitchelmore says he is concerned the people of the province will be left on the hook for any clean-up needed of the closed Marystown fish plant facility.
In a news release, the MHA for The Straits – White Bay North said Ocean Choice International (OCI) has made it clear it will not be processing any more fish there, and will sell the facility.
Mitchelmore says he fears the company will gut the facility of valuable equipment and then try to walk away from the site. He says the provincial government must ensure the people it will hold OCI accountable for all the company’s responsibilities regarding the facility.
“The people of Englee, in my district, know all too well what happens when the owner of a fish plant isn’t held to its responsibilities for the site after the enterprise closes,” Mitchelmore said. “They know government will do nothing to help them.
“I’d hate to see the people of Marystown, and the people of this province, stuck with another expensive, and possibly dangerous environmental clean-up like the former paper mill in Grand Falls-Windsor and, of course, the disintegrating plant in Englee that is causing so much hardship and worry.”
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