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Source: Vice News
The first thing you notice about Sarnia, Ontario, is the smell: a potent mix of
gasoline, melting asphalt, and the occasional trace of rotten egg. Shortly after
my arrival I already felt unpleasantly high and dizzy, like I wasn't getting
enough air. Maybe this had something to do with the bouquet of smokestacks in
the southern part of town that, all day every day, belch fumes and orange flares
like something out of a Blade Runner-esque dystopia.
Sarnia is home to
more than 60 refineries and chemical plants that produce gasoline, synthetic
rubbers, and other materials that the world's industries require to create the
commercial products we know and love. The city's most prominent and profitable
attraction is an area about the size of 100 city blocks known as the Chemical
Valley, where 40 percent of Canada's chemical industry can be found packed
together like a noxious megalopolis. According to a 2011 report by the World
Health Organization, Sarnia's air is the most polluted air in Canada. There are
more toxic air pollutants billowing out of smokestacks here than in all of the
provinces of New Brunswick or Manitoba.
Read the full article on VICE
here: http://bit.ly/Chemical-Valley
Canada´s Toxic chemical valley by Vice.
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