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Political Science Environmental Policy

Fighting Dirty

How a Small Community Took on Big Trash

by (author) Poh-Gek Forkert

Publisher
Between the Lines
Initial publish date
Sep 2017
Category
Environmental Policy, General, Political Advocacy, Environmental Conservation & Protection
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771133241
    Publish Date
    Sep 2017
    List Price
    $28.95
  • Downloadable audio file

    ISBN
    9781771136174
    Publish Date
    Mar 2022
    List Price
    $21.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771133258
    Publish Date
    Apr 2018
    List Price
    $27.99 USD

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Description

Fighting Dirty tells the story of how one small group of farmers, small-town residents, and Indigenous people fought the world’s largest waste disposal company to stop them from expanding a local dumpsite into a massive landfill. As one of the experts brought in to assess the impact the toxic waste would have on the community, Poh-Gek Forkert was part of the adventures and misadventures of their decades-long fight.

About the author

Poh-Gek Forkert is a research scientist and toxicologist and has published more than eighty papers and book chapters on the metabolism of toxic chemicals. She has worked with environmental lawyers and citizen groups, and testified at hearings of the Environmental Review Tribunal, most recently at the Paris Pit case. She is professor emerita at Queen’s University.

Poh-Gek Forkert's profile page

Awards

  • Short-listed, Ontario Legislative Assembly Speaker's Book Award