Sacrifice zone
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A sacrifice zone or sacrifice area is a geographic area that has been permanently changed by heavy environmental alterations or economic disinvestment, often through locally unwanted land use. Comment
A sacrifice zone where iron hydroxide precipitate from coal mining has damaged a stream and surrounding area
Pollution at Maracaibo Lake
Cancer Alley
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Cancer Alley is the regional nickname given to an 184-mile stretch of land along the Mississippi River between the Baton Rouge metropolitan area and the Gulf of Mexico, in the River Parishes of Louisi
Sacrifice zone
…community, rich or poor, black or white, should be allowed to become a 'sacrifice zone'." Perhaps the best-known sacrifice zone in the United States is "Cancer Alley" in Louisiana, an 85-mile stretch of land along the Mississippi river containing over 200 petrochemical plants. Serious air and water quality violations…
A mound of oil drums near the Baton Rouge ExxonMobil Refinery along the Mississippi River in December 1972.