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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Reviled in Argentina, paper mills bring life to Finland

Reviled in Argentina, paper mills bring life to Finland
At the heart of an angry dispute between Argentina and Uruguay, pulp mills, sometimes seen as major polluters, have brought life to parts of Finland where they have often been around longer than the trees themselves.In Finland's southeastern industrial town of Joutseno, where one in two people live off the pulp mills, residents say they can't fathom the Argentinian opposition to the construction of a mill on the Uruguayan side of the river that divides the two South American countries.

 



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