Sydney tar ponds
Sydney Tar Ponds
Upstream from the Sydney tar ponds, and the root of all it's problems over the past eighty years, is a 51 acre coke oven plant, steel plant and an industrial dump, The coke oven was home to a coal refinery which turned coal in to useful substances such as benzene, toluene, kerosene, naphthalene, and tar. Although the plant is now abandoned, these hazardous substances remain. Under the plant is 160 kilometers of busted pipes …
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…that are are between six and nine times the legal limit in Canada.
Works Cited
Tar Ponds History, Dr. Judith M. Newman, 2002
Http://www.lupinworks.com/lct/lct98/tarponds/history.htm
Atlantic Green Lane - Environment Canada, 2002
Http://www.ns.ec.gc.ca/epb/envfacts/pah.html
Sydney Tar Ponds Facts Sheet, Sierra Club of Canada, 1998
Http://www.web.net/~sierra/stp/stp-factsheet.html
Tar Ponds Horror
Http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/2727/frank.htm
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