No. 他们宁愿付罚款了事。
It is amazing that in 2007 Ms. Brown’s is the first comprehensive report ever published on the state of the Ottawa River. Finally, someone has detailed the cumulative impacts of pollution and development on the whole river system. And Ms. Brown is worried. She worries about water toxins, about discharge from the Chalk River nuclear site, and about the effects of the pulp-and-paper industry.
She is right to be concerned.
As far back as 1867, legislation was introduced to prohibit lumber mills from disposing sawdust in rivers. Of course, a huge fight broke out with the lumber barons who were more concerned about potential damage to their industry than about pollution.
Many of them preferred to pay fines instead of complying with regulations.
When I last swam at Westboro Beach, I couldn’t help scanning the riverbed and wonder exactly what was down there, knowing that pulp mills had operated on the river for more than 100 years.
Perhaps most shockingly, Ms. Brown’s 84-page report reveals that no person, no organization, no level of government is taking responsibility for the health of the river. Furthermore, more than a million people are drinking from the river without knowledge of what extraneous substances are being put in it.
However, it is not only the water of the Ottawa River that should concern us. Patterson’s Creek was used for dumping offal and Dows Lake was originally Dows Great Swamp until Colonel By and his engineers got involved. Industry, in the form of a lumberyard and railyard, bordered the lake’s west side right up until the
1930s.
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