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  • Fighting Dirty

    How a Small Community Took on Big Trash

    par Poh-Gek Forkert ...
    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 ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

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    Fighting Dirty

    How a Small Community Took on Big Trash

    par Poh-Gek Forkert ...
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    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 ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Cobalt

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  • Gone Tomorrow

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  • The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest

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