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Woman fights for pollution information
Year Published: 1989Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX3662 Abstract: A Peterborough, Ontario woman is battling to have the provincial environment ministry release information about 11 local polluters. Jeanne Sparling says that both city and ministry staff have refused her request for information about pollution of the Otonabee River by 10 companies and by the city itself. Sparling got a list of the names of the polluters from the ministry through the Ontario Freedom of Information Act, but none of the details contained in the report on the polluters. The city and the 10 companies cited in the report agreed not to release the findings, even though, as Sparling notes, the report "was paid for by taxpayers". -Source: Toronto Star, November 21, 1989 |