Fighting Dirty
How a Small Community Took on Big Trash
- Publisher
- Between the Lines
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2018
- Subjects
- Environmental Policy, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Political Advocacy, General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771133258
- Publish Date
- Apr 2018
- List Price
- $27.99 USD
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Description
Fighting Dirty tells the story of how one small group of farmers, small-town residents, and Indigenous people fought the world’s largest waste disposal company to stop them from expanding a local dumpsite into a massive landfill. As one of the experts brought in to assess the impact the toxic waste would have on the community, Poh-Gek Forkert was part of the adventures and misadventures of their decades-long fight.
About the author
Poh-Gek Forkert is a research scientist and toxicologist and has published more than eighty papers and book chapters on the metabolism of toxic chemicals. She has worked with environmental lawyers and citizen groups, and testified at hearings of the Environmental Review Tribunal, most recently at the Paris Pit case. She is professor emerita at Queen’s University.
Awards
- Short-listed, Ontario Legislative Assembly Speaker's Book Award