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Baxter, Joan.
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Northern Pulp (Pictou, N.S.)
Pulp mills -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou.
Pulp mills -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou -- History.
Paper mills -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou -- History.
Wood-pulp industry -- Environmental aspects -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou.
Wood-pulp industry -- Social aspects -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou.
Air quality -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou.
Air -- Pollution -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou.
Water quality -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou.
Water -- Pollution -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou.
Forest management -- Nova Scotia.
Clearcutting -- Environmental aspects.
Clearcutting -- Nova Scotia.
Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing.
Pictou (N.S.) -- Social conditions.
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Baxter, Joan.
Northern Pulp (Pictou, N.S.)
Pulp mills -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou.
Pulp mills -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou -- History.
Paper mills -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou -- History.
Wood-pulp industry -- Environmental aspects -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou.
Wood-pulp industry -- Social aspects -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou.
Air quality -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou.
Air -- Pollution -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou.
Water quality -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou.
Water -- Pollution -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou.
Forest management -- Nova Scotia.
Clearcutting -- Environmental aspects.
Clearcutting -- Nova Scotia.
Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing.
Pictou (N.S.) -- Social conditions.
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The mill : fifty years of pulp and protest (
book
club
kit
- non fiction) / Joan Baxter ; with a foreword by Elizabeth May.
by
Baxter, Joan.
Pottersfield Press, 2017.
Call #:
BOOK
CLUB
KIT
338
.47676
B355m
Subjects
Northern Pulp (Pictou, N.S.)
Pulp mills -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou.
Pulp mills -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou -- History.
Paper mills -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou -- History.
Wood-pulp industry -- Environmental aspects -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou.
Wood-pulp industry -- Social aspects -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou.
Air quality -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou.
Air -- Pollution -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou.
Water quality -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou.
Water -- Pollution -- Nova Scotia -- Pictou.
Forest management -- Nova Scotia.
Clearcutting -- Environmental aspects.
Clearcutting -- Nova Scotia.
Atlantic
Book
Award for Scholarly Writing.
Pictou (N.S.) -- Social conditions.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-351).
Summary:
Explores the power that a single industry can wield. 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. From the day it began operation in 1967, the mill has fomented protest and created deep divisions and tensions in northern Nova Scotia. This story is about people whose livelihoods depend on the pulp mill and who are willing to live with the 'smell of money.' It's about people whose well-being, health, homes, water, air, and businesses have been harmed by the mill's emissions and effluent. It's about the heartache such divisions cause and about people who, for the sake of peace, keep their thoughts about the mill to themselves. But it's also about hope, giving voice to those who led the successive groups that have protested and campaigned for a cleaner mill - First Nations, fishers, doctors, local councillors, tourism operators, artists and musicians, teachers and woodlot owners. Their personal stories are interwoven into a historical arc that traces the mill's origins and the persistent environmental and social problems it causes to this day. Relevant to everyone who is concerned about how we can start to renegotiate the relationship between economy, jobs, and profits on one hand, and human well-being, health, and the environment on the other. Joan Baxter is a Canadian journalist, author, development consultant, researcher and writer, and anthropologist. Joan grew up in Nova Scotia on Canada's east coast. After a stint of working for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Halifax on the daily radio programs, Information Morning and Mainstreet, she headed to Niger in West Africa. There she began her freelance journalism career. She is the author of several books, including Seven Grains of Paradise. Visit her website at joanbaxter.ca
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Book
Award for Scholarly Writing, 2019.
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