Bathurst Redevelopment Inc. plea delayed 6 weeks

Prosecutors in Bathurst have asked for a six-week extension to serve the owners of the former Smurfit-Stone millsitewith additional court papers.

Bathurst Redevelopment Inc.is charged with violating the province's Clean Environment Act by ignoring a ministerial order from Environment Minister Brian Kenny.

The company was expected to answer those charges in provincial court Monday, but Crown prosecutor Yves Duguay asked for the six-week extension to to serve the additional papers. Duguay did not elaborate on the nature of the new documents to be served.

Bathurst Redevelopment Inc. is the Canadians affiliate of Green Investment Group, which bought the former mill property in 2010.

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