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Mike Spencer

writes:

The other eye-catcher was quenching a heat of coke. Did you ever see
that done? It blackened the sky for miles. Not long after, doing it
without filters was outlawed in the US and most of Europe.

Saw that done at Sydney, Nova Scotia, early 70s. Whole flaming rail
car drenched, spectaular at night. A few years later, the mill closed
and the "tar ponds" that collected the runoff became the province's
biggest environmental nightmare.

People who live downwind of those operations in China and India die
at an early age.

AIUI, the health/mortality consequences of decades of coking in Sydney
are still being litigated here.

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Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada