GEOG 3040 Lecture 6: GEOG 3040 notes 6
25 Jan 2019
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The hamilton harbour scandals are important to talk about environmental contamination and landscape change, and the role of politics and power in shaping the urban environment. In comparison to toronto, which has a less industrial waterfront now after extensive redevelopment to a recreational space: has a port. Deals with massive shipments of all the materials needed for steel making: is a large, sheltered harbour with a canal to allow access, is a hotspot for contamination on the great lakes. But still has active lake filling by the harbour commission. Is federally regulated: traditionally, and now, is home to steel mills and steel companies. Now, the steel plants sit on landfill sites. Which is helpful; the ash needs to be dumped somewhere, and it is expensive to haul it away. So the steel waste materials are in turn used for lake filling.
