Chronic Failure Podcast

Episode 9: The Sydney Tar Ponds


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Episode Source Material

Sydney Tar Ponds by Environment & Society Portal

Sydney Tar Ponds – Project Spotlight by Lafarge

Coke Ovens Emissions – National Cancer Institute

Laying Waste to Toxic Waste by Barbara Webber

Coke by U.S. Energy Information Administration

Sydney Tar Ponds Environmental Class Action is Over by Dianne Saxe

Local Willingness-to-Pay Estimates for the Remediation of the Sydney Tar Ponds in Nova Scotia by Ida Ferrara, Sephen McComb and Paul Missios

Islanders Cast Adrift; Nova Scotians Feel Forsaken Amid Toxic Waste by Steven Pearlstein

The Sydney tar ponds: lessons learned from Canada’s first superfund level project by E. MacLellan & A. Britten

Steel’s Legacy Contained – Remediation of the Sydney Tar Ponds and Coke Ovens Site in Sydney, Nova Scotia by Alan Van Norman

What are PCBs by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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