The 2020 deadline to close the Boat Harbour effluent treatment facility approaches, and the divided community of Pictou County, Nova Scotia is facing a major turning point in the environmental controversy surrounding the local pulp mill. Will the Government of Nova Scotia allow a new plan to pipe treated effluent directly into local fishing grounds? As opposition to the pipe mounts, there is a growing sense that what separates a community can also bring it together in new ways.