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Troubled Waters - Champion International Pigeon River Controversy (Paperback)
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Troubled Waters - Champion International Pigeon River Controversy (Paperback)
Series: Outdoor Tennessee Series
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Since 1908, the corporate giant now known as Champion International
has operated a pulp and paper mill along the banks of the Pigeon
River in Canton, North Carolina. As a result, during most of those
years, this once-sparkling Appalachian stream has been virtually
useless except as an industrial sewer - foamy, foul-smelling,
molasses-colored. By polluting the river, the mill that brought
prosperity to Canton stunted the economic growth of the downstream
communities in Cocke County, Tennessee. Although public pressure to
clean up the Pigeon surfaced intermittently, it has been only in
the years since 1985 that two organizations - the Pigeon River
Action Group and the Dead Pigeon River Council - have mounted a
sustained drive against the ongoing pollution. Today, following a
multimillion-dollar upgrading of the Champion mill, the Pigeon
River is cleaner but hardly pristine. Moreover, there is little
evidence that Champion carried out its modernization for any
reasons other than economic ones.
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