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To: jazzlover2 who wrote (761170)	4/13/2022 1:52:17 AM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793759

I know Sudbury, NDP land. At least it was back in the day. NDP....is that good or bad?..............I spent a summer up there while in high school............1969....saw the moon landing on TV while up there .............back then, the area around Sudbury was a moonscape in itself.........I'll never forget......you're heading up there driving thru virgin conifer forest and then as you approach Sudbury within 20 miles or so, the trees start to get smaller and smaller..........then eventually no trees..... just some shrubby growth here and there........then.....nothing......just barren bed rock.....a veritable moonscape........this was just before INCO built that humongous (1200+ foot) stack for the nickel ore smelter in Copper Cliff....there were a couple of 500 footers but they didn't get the pollution high enough to be carried away by the prevailing winds........the smelter effluent killed everything.........all the vegetation and fish in local lakes out to about 20 miles........once the trees died, the soil just washed away leaving a barren moonscape. I read where the US astronauts actually trained up there....... the big attraction for visitors in summer in the evening was to go out and witness the slag train pour molten nickel ore slag down the ridge line..... later that night, there was Stomping Tom Connors playing the bars........and those were the good times.....won't talk about the winters. en.wikipedia.org youtube.com youtube.com