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A newly created Irving company, Engineering Consultants Ltd., was given a "lucrative" contract to manage construction of the mill-smelter complex.16 The site chosen for the smelter complex was the tiny village of Dying for Development: The legacy of lead in Belledune 7 Belledune on the shores of the Bay of Chaleur. [...] Dying for Development: 8 The legacy of lead in Belledune 2. Smoke on the Horizon In 1961, in exchange for having the smelter built in the north, the New Brunswick government proposed special legislation giv- ing East Coast Smelting, the company building the smelter com- plex, a wide range of special rights.22 The company was given the "Everyone is agreed on right to negotiate long-term tax agreeme [...] They concluded that the impacts were due to the direct contact of SO with the surface of the leaves and that several 2 factors influenced the degree of the impact such as atmospheric moisture and temperature and species of trees, with evergreens being more sensitive than deciduous trees. [...] Warren reported that, according to the company, the case of lead poisoning reported in the news- A short history of lead paper was not lead poisoning and the symptoms of lead poison- In the first part of the 20th century, ing like weakness, sore joints and loss of weight "could be simi- lead was used in pigments, lar to many other ailments or diseases."60 Warren noted that the batteries, paint, pl [...] In 1921, "good." The company had gone to "great lengths" to educate the president of the National Lead and train the workers and the company had ordered equipment Company in the United States wrote for dust sampling.