The World - News from Aug. 31, 1989
A shipload of toxic PCBs arrived in the Canadian port city of Baie-Comeau, on the St. Lawrence River in Quebec province, one day after riot police used clubs to disperse protesters so that an earlier shipment could be moved to temporary storage nearby. A Quebec Superior Court judge rejected applications by a citizens’ coalition in Baie-Comeau for injunctions forbidding long-term storage of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, from elsewhere in Quebec. It was the second day the coalition lost a legal battle to prevent the unloading of toxic PCBs produced in the Quebec city of St.-Basile-le-Grand.
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