Atome 33: Quebecers fighting industrial poisoning

A flourishing city in western Quebec, Rouyn-Noranda developed around the Horne foundry, an industrial flagship for copper and other precious metals. For decades, the factory has been embodying local prosperity, until the inhabitants point their finger at an insidious poison: the population has abnormally high levels of arsenic in the body. Faced with this invisible pollution, a mobilization began, carried out by a group of citizens determined to…