Fighting Dirty, PohGek Forkert
Fighting Dirty, PohGek Forkert
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Fighting Dirty
How a Small Community Took on Big Trash

Author: Poh-Gek Forkert

Narrator: Vivian Hisey

Unabridged: 8 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 03/30/2022


Synopsis

Fighting Dirty tells the story of how one small group of farmers, small-town residents, and Indigenous people fought the world’s largest waste disposal company to stop them from expanding a local dumpsite into a massive landfill. As one of the experts brought in to assess the impact the toxic waste would have on the community, Poh-Gek Forkert was part of the adventures and misadventures of their decades-long fight.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sharon on April 26, 2022

I thoroughly enjoyed this in-depth look at a grassroots fight against a landfill in the neighborhood. Most people are in opposition of landfills because they don’t want them in their neighborhoods, and understandably so. In this unique case, the geology, specifically fractured bedrock, was especiall......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on March 14, 2022

A lot of repetition of phrases and quotes for what seems like no reason, it was really off-putting, as were the full captions of images bearing in mind this is an audiobook, a brief description would have been adequate and much smoother. If this is to be released outside Canada too might want to expl......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on March 11, 2022

A rural community with a high proportion of indigenous peoples takes on the Goliath of a waste disposal company in a decades-long fight. The narrative reads as though written for a serial column in a newspaper. Much is made of the human angle, but this is overplayed, with rabbit holes of unnecessary......more