Thundering Waters The Toxic Legacy of Niagara Falls | 21.63 MB
Title: Thundering Waters The Toxic Legacy of Niagara Falls
Author: Christen E. Civiletto
Category: Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Nature, Environment, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Government, Public Policy, History, Americas, United States
Language: English | 392 Pages | ISBN: 9780691933887
Description:
"Masterful. . . . An absolutely essential story, infuriating, urgent, and indispensable."-Caroline Fraser, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Murderland and Prairie Fires
How corporate kingpins built their empires by poisoning a treasured natural wonder
Few images from the natural world conjure the same awe, power, and amazement as Niagara Falls. Each year, millions flock from around the world to hear the roar of the falls, feel and smell the spray, and maybe take in the sight up close by boat. What they don't know-nor do most of the locals-is that the city of Niagara Falls is the setting of one of the most shocking and horrific tales of environmental desecration of the past hundred plus years.
By virtue of the Falls' might, Niagara Falls was the birthplace of the commercial electro-chemical industry-and for decades, those massive corporations dumped, buried, vented, incinerated, and piled their millions of tons of toxic...
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