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The Love Canal Tragedy

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Birth Effects - The New York Times Observer

25 years after the hooker chemical company stopped using the love canal here as an dustrial dump, 82 different compounds, 11 of them suspected, carsinagans have been percolating upward through the soil. The drum containers rotting and leeching their contents into the backyards and basements of a hundred homes and a public school built on the banks of the canal. There were photographs of the type where you would see ono corroded, decayed metal drums popping through the soil in people's back yards. This is super bad, and i don't mean the comedy film, which was good, honestly, bears a rewatch. They called boobs warlocks, which is to

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