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Sludge last time: Although moving out to sea, last week's spill was three times the size of the 1970 Chedabucto disaster
Sludge last time: Although moving out to sea, last week's spill was three times the size of the 1970 Chedabucto disaster

Sludge last time: Although moving out to sea, last week's spill was three times the size of the 1970 Chedabucto disaster

Date2/14/1970
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Original Toronto Star caption: Sludge last time: Although moving out to sea; last week's spill was three times the size of the 1970 Chedabucto disaster.
GeographyProvince stateOntario
GeographyCountryCanada
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Photographs
Language
ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0010989F
Making a test burn of oil slick along the south shore of Nova Scotia's Chedabucto Bay, workmen watch black smoke billow up from the thick seepage of bunker oil from [Incomplete]
Making a test burn of oil slick along the south shore of Nova Scotia's Chedabucto Bay, workmen watch black smoke billow up from the thick seepage of bunker oil from [Incomplete]
Spremo, Boris
2/14/1970
Dirty black smoke rises from the polluted shore of Chedabucto Bay in Nova Scotia in an experiment to get rid of the mass of oil from the wrecked tanke(...)
Dirty black smoke rises from the polluted shore of Chedabucto Bay in Nova Scotia in an experiment to get rid of the mass of oil from the wrecked tanke(...)
Spremo, Boris
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John Gerochristodoulu picks up a dead fish, one of hundreds killed last summer when a blocked sewer allowed liquid from a Scarborough dye firm to spill into Massey Creek, a Don tributary
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Hundreds of kilometres of shoreline, as yet untouched by clean-up efforts, lie under a layer of black sludge similar to this dirty and lifeless stretch of shore on Northwest Bay
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Experts plugged all the hotels at tiny Port Hawksbury, nearest town to the Arrow disaster
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Humane society workers Wilf Patey (left) and Reginald Chapman hold up a Canada goose rescued from oil spill along Sunnyside waterfront. More than 75 d(...)
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