Box 41
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Series 6. Apple Grove Paper and Pulp Mill, 1989-1997
Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
Series 6 consists of materials related to OVEC’s efforts to stop the proposed construction of Parsons & Whittemore Incorporated’s Apple Grove Paper & Pulp Mill in Apple Grove, Mason County, West Virginia. Controversy over the project began in 1989, and after successful efforts by OVEC, plans for the pulp mill were scrapped in 1997. The opposition to the pulp mill was rooted in many concerns, especially the release of carcinogenic dioxins into the Ohio River and into the air (dioxin,...
Dates:
1989-1997