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Originally Posted by DNSB
...But as one former Minister of Highways for the province of British Columbia said in reference to the stink from a pulp mill, "Air pollution is the smell of money". ...
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Originally Posted by Apache
My uncle retired from a pulp mill after 46 years and whenever anyone complained about the smell, he would inhale and exclaim "it smells like money to me".
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I maintained the phone system for a while at the (then) James River Paper Mill in Camas, Washington (I think it's owned by Georgia-Pacific now, but they've closed most of the mill down now, I think they only make "soft" (toilet) paper there now, used to make a lot copy paper). They used that same line "smells like money," but (being clever in my own mind) I would reply, "money must stink, then." (I chose my audience pretty carefully for this "clever" remark, however.) Those chemicals were pretty miserable. We had one area of the mill where I couldn't put in the newest digital phones because they would only last a couple weeks or a month in that chemical smelling air. We had to use the old mechanical ones. I tried to spend as little time in that area as I could. Hemp takes a lot less work than wood pulp, but then DuPont couldn't have made a fortune on their patented chemicals required for turning wood into pulp. (Not a fan of DuPont.)