CPTer Doug Pritchard in clear cut area in Northwest Ontario.
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Destroyed forest of Northwestern Ontario. The perimeter of an average-sized clearcut is 10 km.
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Logs ready for transport to the Kenora pulp mill.
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The Abitibi pulp mill in Kenora. 99.9% of the paper is sold to US newspapers. Abitibi operates 29 mills around the world with sales of 4.8 billion in 2003.
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Clear cut in winter.
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Amy Peters next to a 'tree harvester.' Logging has become a highly mechanized, industrial process that employs fewer and fewer people.
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'Slash' wood left behind by Abitibi. Grassy members have been forbidden from collecting it for firewood.
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Grassy Narrows Lake is poisoned by mercury effluent from a Dryden chemical factory 320 km upstream from Grassy Narrows.
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The Wabigoon River carries deadly mercury poison from the pulp industry. Many Grassy community members have experienced mercury poisoning.
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