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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: stribe30 who wrote (130644)1/24/2001 5:44:37 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH  Read Replies (1) of 1571770
 
I believe also that Canadians as a whole are very concerned about environmental issues.. having put up with acid rain pollution for many yrs and having to listen to US Interior Cabinet Ministers telling us that cows and our trees caused it..

Well, I suppose things have changed but that is not exactly how I remember it as a kid. During my youth I spent many a summer with relatives in Sudbury Ontario. At the time, Sudbury was the nickel (INCO) capital of the world. I always could tell when we were getting close to Sudbury. The landscape would rapidly change from pristine forest to barren (moonscape like) rocky terrain as you got near the city. This was the result of the huge nickel ore smelter whose pollution killed literally every tree within a radius of a few miles. Once the trees died, the thin topsoil washed away and you were left with the most moonscape like terrain you could ever imagine. Finally, INCO built what was, at the time, the tallest smokestack in the world for the smelter. This spread out the pollution over a incredibly wide area (including the US) thus diluting its killing effect. I also remember what was the big tourist attraction in Sudbury at the time. At night, you would go out to below the barren ridge beyond the smelter. Periodically, a slag train would come along the top of the ridge from the smelter. It would stop and then in unison, all the rail cars would pour their molten (red hot) slag down the hill side. Quite a sight at night.

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