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Black gold: Herb Campbell, a research engineer at the Canada Centre for inland Waters, pours oil produced from sewage sludge into a beaker. The novel concept could turn the sludge into a valuable resource rather than an expensively disposed - of waste. Petro Sun international Inc. is getting set to take the process out of the lab into the marketplace.
Black gold: Herb Campbell, a research engineer at the Canada Centre for inland Waters, pours oil produced from sewage sludge into a beaker. The novel concept could turn the sludge into a valuable resource rather than an expensively disposed - of waste. Petro Sun international Inc. is getting set to take the process out of the lab into the marketplace.

Black gold: Herb Campbell, a research engineer at the Canada Centre for inland Waters, pours oil produced from sewage sludge into a beaker. The novel concept could turn the sludge into a valuable resource rather than an expensively disposed - of waste. Petro Sun international Inc. is getting set to take the process out of the lab into the marketplace.

Date9/8/1987
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Islington inventor: Bob Shannon's process uses dirty coal and oil sands sludge to make cheap oil while fighting acid rain to boot.
Islington inventor: Bob Shannon's process uses dirty coal and oil sands sludge to make cheap oil while fighting acid rain to boot.
8/7/1986
Tony Riccuto operates the drum. Vacuum filter separates the sludge and the water. Toxic waste disposal plant. Bolton, Ontario
Tony Riccuto operates the drum. Vacuum filter separates the sludge and the water. Toxic waste disposal plant. Bolton, Ontario
1/11/1985
Neither snow nor rain . . . As miserable as it was, there were thousands whose jobs forced them outside into slip-slide-sludge city. Mail carriers, fo(...)
Neither snow nor rain . . . As miserable as it was, there were thousands whose jobs forced them outside into slip-slide-sludge city. Mail carriers, fo(...)
2/12/1985
Hundreds of kilometres of shoreline, as yet untouched by clean-up efforts, lie under a layer of black sludge similar to this dirty and lifeless stretch of shore on Northwest Bay
Hundreds of kilometres of shoreline, as yet untouched by clean-up efforts, lie under a layer of black sludge similar to this dirty and lifeless stretch of shore on Northwest Bay
5/29/1989
Sludge last time: Although moving out to sea, last week's spill was three times the size of the 1970 Chedabucto disaster
Sludge last time: Although moving out to sea, last week's spill was three times the size of the 1970 Chedabucto disaster
2/14/1970
Paper trail: Farmer Don Whitcombe indicates his opinion about the use of paper sludge as fertilizer at a protest outside Atlantic Packaging in Whitby
Paper trail: Farmer Don Whitcombe indicates his opinion about the use of paper sludge as fertilizer at a protest outside Atlantic Packaging in Whitby
1/20/1999
Stuck in sludge: Tom Dean's (untitled) chair covered in thick grease - typical of so-what stuff on exhibit at Harbourfront
Stuck in sludge: Tom Dean's (untitled) chair covered in thick grease - typical of so-what stuff on exhibit at Harbourfront
7/2/1987
The wax man: Willy Nelson shows how his hot wax application for picking up spilled oil can sop up oil sludge, held in his right hand, and turn it into a waxy misture, in his left hand, solving an environmental crisis
The wax man: Willy Nelson shows how his hot wax application for picking up spilled oil can sop up oil sludge, held in his right hand, and turn it into a waxy misture, in his left hand, solving an environmental crisis
5/11/1989
Image shows a motorist, battery booster cables in hand, stands beside his car stalled on Leslie ...
If looks could kill: A fuming motorist, battery booster cables in hand, stands beside his car stalled on Leslie Street at Sheppard Avenue, Toronto, Ontario in yesterday's storm, waiting and hoping that somebody will come to his aid. The storm battered Metro with snow, sleet and howling winds, turning streets into a sea of sludge.
2/12/1985
Neither snow nor rain . . . As miserable as it was, there were thousands whose jobs forced them outside into slip-slide-sludge city. Mall carriers, fo(...)
Neither snow nor rain . . . As miserable as it was, there were thousands whose jobs forced them outside into slip-slide-sludge city. Mall carriers, fo(...)
2/12/1985
Something for nothing: Engineer David Pei demonstrates a microwave baking process using peanuts at his University of Waterloo lab
Something for nothing: Engineer David Pei demonstrates a microwave baking process using peanuts at his University of Waterloo lab
7/19/1984
Pollution pours into Lake Ontario out of the mouth of Etobicoke Creek, adding yet another ingredient to a recipe of toxins poisoning this natural resource
Pollution pours into Lake Ontario out of the mouth of Etobicoke Creek, adding yet another ingredient to a recipe of toxins poisoning this natural resource
6/18/1984