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Espanola

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Settled by Spanish River Pulp and Paper company workers, the town boomed until the Great Depression when the facility closed. For 16 years production was shut down, the settlement became a ghost town.

The mill site was used as a POW camp during WW2.

After the war, Michigan's KVP Company bought the facility. They released upwards of five tons a day of chemically contaminated wood fibres into the river instead of using a settling basin for effluent disposal, which the manager cited as: a matter of economics.

The downstream community along with local wildlife organizations sued KVP. Despite being found guilty, and again in the courts of appeal, KVP were given a de facto license to pollute by the provincial government, who feared loss of jobs.

Premier Leslie Frost upon retiring from politics, became a member of KVP's board of directors. He also managed to receive the Companions of the Order of Canada, and declared in his final interview: I am an environmentalist. Frost has numerous buildings and schools named after him.

In 1983, 18 thousand gallons of toxic soap spilled into the river killing over 120 000 fish. The river is said to have recovered, the new owners boast a clean mill, and a fish sanctuary has been established.

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from Watershed, released September 4, 2020

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just sitting at home watching the world burn
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