Moratorium on new sites delays Cooke Aquaculture's $150M expansion plan for Nova Scotia by years
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [CBC] - December 14, 2014 -
Atlantic Canada's largest aquaculture company — Cooke Aquaculture — says it has been forced to delay key elements in a $150-million expansion planned for Nova Scotia by several years.
New Brunswick-based Cooke blames a moratorium on new aquaculture sites imposed by the previous New Democratic government in 2013, when it ordered a study of aquaculture.
Cooke's applications for new aquaculture sites have also been on a shelf for two years.
"That part of our business plan has stalled. That's not our doing.
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