Nature Environmental Conservation & Protection
The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest
- Publisher
- Pottersfield Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2018
- Category
- Environmental Conservation & Protection
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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).
