Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Sarah Smellie
Publication Date: June 16, 2025 - 07:14
Rotting fish-sauce plant whose stench torments Newfoundland town will be cleaned up
June 16, 2025
A coastal Newfoundland town besieged for decades by the fetid stench wafting from an abandoned fish-sauce factory has finally received good news.Steve Ryan, the mayor of St. Mary’s, N.L., said he nearly broke down in tears when officials with the Newfoundland and Labrador government told him the province would foot the bill to clean up the festering site. The promise brings residents close to the end of a decades-long ordeal that has kept them indoors on beautiful days, lest the smell get in their hair and clothes.
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