Frederick Street: Life and death on Canada's Love Canal

by Maude Barlow

How did an estuary in Sydney Nova Scotia become a cesspool containing tons of toxic sludge - much worse than the Love Canal. The people of Frederick Street fight to save their neighbourhood and the waterway.

Genres: Nonfiction, Canada, History

227 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Maude Barlow is the bestselling author of 20 books. She sits on the board of Food & Water Watch, the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, and is a counselor with the World Future Council. She served as senior water advisor to the UN General Assembly and was a leader in the campaign to have water recognized as a human right. She is the recipient of fourteen honorary doctorates, the Right Livelihood Award and is the current chancellor of Brescia University. She lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

Reviews

[Daniel Macgregor · Rating 5 out of 5]

A key part of the history of industrial Cape Breton, that focuses on the fallout of decades of corporate exploitation.

[Huguette Larochelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

wow that book it so shocking , that thing like that can go on in the 80.s and 90.s
wow peoples should read this . it open eyes on what going on in this world