Finnish community is living in harmony with ECF Pulpmills and happy ever after!???

Finnish community is living in harmony with ECF Pulpmills and happy ever after!???
Swimming and fishing and loving it!! ?

“… They say that if you visit the 300 mills in Europe, these factories live in harmony with cities and have no problems in doing so. The rivers still have fish and the people still swim in them.”

FALSE: In the summer of 2003, some 7,500 cubic metres of black liquor leaked out of the UPM pulp mill in Lappeenranta, Finland and seriously contaminated an important area of Lake Saimaa. According to the local press, “the biological treatment plant was unable to deal with this sudden discharge and in a matter of days the black liquor spread out into the waters of the lake.” The press continued by saying “the black liquor consumes the oxygen from the water, causing a high rate of fish mortality and also darkens the waters and contaminates the shores. Furthermore, it has an extremely disagreeable smell. Half the fish stocks were eradicated over a radius of three kilometres from the mill.” The accident caused great anger as it happened just when the summer holidays were starting (in Finland summer is very short) and the people were getting ready to enjoy the lake. To make matters worse, the company did not inform anybody about the problem. “It was just like old times. The water was heavy, white and full of froth. The smell was terrible. It spoilt the holidays as the problem lasted a whole month.” (2)

“Following the track of pulp in Finland. The other side of the coin,” June 2005, field research carried out by Ricardo Carrere: Here

Source: WRM’s bulletin Nº 102, January 2006

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