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Troubled waters : Champion International and the Pigeon River Controversy / Richard A. Bartlett.
Van Pelt Library TD428.P35 B37 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bartlett, Richard A.
- Series:
- Outdoor Tennessee series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paper industry--Waste disposal--Environmental aspects--Pigeon River (N.C. and Tenn.).
- Paper industry.
- Water--Pollution--Pigeon River (N.C. and Tenn.).
- Water.
- Champion International Corporation.
- Water--Pollution.
- Paper industry--Waste disposal--Environmental aspects.
- Paper industry--Waste disposal.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 348 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [1995]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Chronology, May 1985-April 1994
- The mill, the setting, and the problem
- Enter Champion
- Pollution at will: the first seven decades of the Canton mill
- Who is Charles Dickens Mullinix
- The legal battles begin
- Cocke County takes a stand
- Growing conflict
- The programmed Asheville hearing
- Overkill: the Knoxville hearing
- Dioxin
- The governor rejects the variance
- The permit, the evidentiary hearing, and the lawsuit
- Where we were, where we are, and a look ahead.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-328) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0870498878
- 0870498886
- OCLC:
- 31331399
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