“I can get in my car and drive away,” she says. Even though she’s one of the closest residents to the factory, she knows others - including those living at a retirement community less than.
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Lee has had to rearrange her life around the factory fumes she parks her car at her brother-in-law’s house, and leaves her home entirely in the summer, boarding up the windows and doors in an attempt to keep the smell out of her belongings. Mary’s resident for more than four decades, the stench in the summer is “cruel,” “worse than rotten eggs.” “If you’re out there, you will throw up,” she says, adding that she’s seen hikers walking along the road suddenly get sick when they catch a whiff. What residents are left with is a stink so strong that it feels like a wave get hit, and it will knock you off your feet.Īccording to Juliette “Sis” Lee, a St. Unfortunately, the Atlantic Seafood Sauce Company was short lived, shuttering just 11 years after it opened, mired in regulations and legal battles. “For a town like this, 50 jobs is just amazing,” Ryan says, noting the factory would have also fed the municipal tax base. Mary’s current deputy mayor Steve Ryan equated with landing Amazon’s HQ2 in terms of its significance for the town: During the 2011 Canadian census, it had a population of 439. When it originally opened in 1990, it was said to be bringing with it between 14 and 50 jobs, an opportunity that St. The reason: the hollowed-out shell of what was once the Atlantic Seafood Sauce Company, which closed its doors in 2001.Īt first the factory seemed like a good idea.
When the wind comes from the northeast, it carries the stench of over 100 vats of rotten, nearly 20-year-old fish sauce into the homes and business of everyone in the tiny community. Mary’s, Newfoundland aren’t always that lucky.
On a good day the wind blows the fumes right out to sea, but the residents of St.
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