Toxic legacies, slow violence, and environmental injustice at Giant Mine, Northwest Territories

J Sandlos, A Keeling - Northern Review, 2016 - thenorthernreview.ca
For fifty years (1949–99) the now-abandoned Giant Mine in Yellowknife emitted arsenic air
and water pollution into the surrounding environment. Arsenic pollution from Giant Mine had …

Environmental justice and large-scale mining

L Urkidi, M Walter - The Routledge handbook of environmental …, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter addresses environmental justice (EJ) in the context of large-scale metal mining
activities, an increasingly relevant activity in EJ debates and one of the most polluting …

Culture, progress and the media: The shad as synecdoche in environmental news coverage

JB Rowe - Environmental Communication, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
This essay examined the use of synecdoche in newspaper coverage of a dispute over water
rights between the Mattaponi Indians and the city of Newport News, Virginia. The Mattaponi …