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New Brunswick's Farm Practices Review Board ruled this week that Coastal Shell Products doesn't qualify as an agricultural operation, which means a citizens' group can resume its application for a court injunction to shut down the Richibucto-based shell-processing plant.

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Spring has officially arrived in Richibucto, N.B., and within a few short weeks, shells will likely be trucked to the Coastal Shell Products facility located inside the community.

A New Brunswick shell processing plant has been given approval from the provincial government to continue operations for the next nine months as it faces a legal challenge over long-term odour and noise complaints.

A processing plant in eastern New Brunswick has had its operating licence renewed, with the condition that it install odour control technology within a year.

The Kent Clean Air Action Committee are concerned the shell-drying plant near Beaurivage, N.B., will get significant government funding after they received a document outlining government funding though the Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

The Kent Clean Air Action Committee is concerned the shell-drying plant near Beaurivage, N.B., will get significant government funding after they received a document outlining government funding though the Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

With Coastal Shell Products' approval to operate up for renewal at the end of July, many residents of Richibucto wonder what it will take to shut down the shellfish plant that's been stinking up their town for years. 

As the seafood process plant faces a permit renewal at the end of this month, over 700 complaints, between 2017 and June 12 of this year, have been released to the public from the Kent Clean Air Action Committee.

The reprieve from the reek of rotting shellfish in Richibucto was disappointingly short-lived, say residents who have long complained about the smell wafting through their community.