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Nature Environmental Conservation & Protection

The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest

by (author) Joan Baxter

Publisher
Pottersfield Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2018
Category
Environmental Conservation & Protection
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781988286259
    Publish Date
    Jan 2018
    List Price
    $14.99

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Description

For fifty years, the pulp mill near Pictou in northern Nova Scotia has buoyed the local economy and found support from governments at all levels. But it has also pulped millions of acres of forests, spewed millions of tonnes of noxious emissions into the air, consumed quadrillions of litres of fresh water and then pumped them out again as toxic effluent into nearby Boat Harbour, and eventually into the Northumberland Strait.

About the author

Joan Baxter (b. 1955) grew up in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and now makes her home in Bamako, Mali, West Africa, where she is a correspondent for the BBC. In 2001, she received the Evelyn Richardson Award for her non-fiction book about Africa, A Serious Pair of Shoes (Pottersfield, 2000). "Act of God" is from her collection Strangers Are Like Children (Pottersfield, 1998).

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