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From: rcgood@trillium.waterloo.edu (Rob Good MAPLE tutor)
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Subject: Re: Dioxin and Native Communities
Keywords: ACK!
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Date: 15 Nov 88 07:08:34 GMT
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In article <544@yunccn.UUCP> john@yunccn.UUCP (John Hummel) writes:
>Keywords: Dioxin Pollution Health
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>DIOXIN POLLUTION AND TOXIC WASTE DUMP SITES IN THE FORT FRANCES
>AREA: SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND SOME LITTLE KNOWN FACTS
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	I was reading the article about dioxin in the Fort Frances Area
that was posted to this newsgroup and thought the views of someone
from the Fort Frances area would be of interest.

	I have lived in the Fort Frances area for the last 15 years,
and in the town of Fort Frances for the last 5 years (aside from the
time spent going to university in Waterloo).

	The Fort Frances area (aka the Rainy River District) has a 
population of about 20 000, while the town of Fort Frances has a
population of about 8 500.  Fort Frances is essentially a one industry
town i.e. BOISE CASCADE.  The typical attitude regarding Boise Cascade
in Fort Frances is: We'd better not do anything to piss Boise off or
they might leave and then the town would die.  Not a surprising attitude
in a one industry town; and I suspect not one unique to Fort Frances.
It is also not too surprising that the town tends to 'look the other
way' at news of the dioxin issue in the area; and in fact the local
media, shall I say, downplays the level of the problem.  It wasn't 
until I read that posting that *I* found out about the number of dump
sites in that area.  I think the general problem is that no one from
that area wants to make waves; and no one from outside that area really
knows what's going one.

	I should also mention that the town of Fort Frances is on
the border between Ontario and Minnesota.  The town of International
Falls, Minn. is right across the border from Fort Frances.  There is
also a Boise Cascade mill in that town.  I wonder how many dump sites
there are on the American side of the border, and what condition they
are in.

	All in all it seems a pretty scary situation.  Guess what I'll
be talking about when I go home this Christmas....

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Rob Good	from Fort 'Dioxin' Frances

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