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Hooker Chemical Company (or Hooker Electrochemical Company) was an American firm producing chloralkali products from 1903 to 1968. In 1922, bought the S. Wander & Sons Company to sell lye and chlorinated lime.
Apr 11, 2024 · Beginning in the 1940s, Hooker Electrochemical Company, one of the giants of Niagara Falls industry, began dumping into the abandoned canal; over the next decade, Hooker deposited almost...
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Apr 19, 2024 · Founded in 1903 in Rochester, New York, the Hooker Chemical and Plastics Corporation disposed of some 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal between 1942 and 1952.
Jun 12, 2023 · The former Occidental Chemical Corp. plant, originally Hooker Chemical Company, looming behind homes in Niagara Falls. Hooker was the source of one of the biggest environmental disasters in...
Apr 17, 2024 · For nearly a decade, Hooker dumped roughly 22,000 tons of dangerous chemical waste into the defunct waterway, a common disposal practice and one largely unregulated by the local government.
Apr 18, 2024 · For a decade beginning in the 1940s, Hooker Chemical Company, one of the titans of Niagara Falls industry, had buried its industrial byproducts in the abandoned canal at the center of the...
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Nov 25, 2013 · Covered with dirt, the 16-acre site in 1953 was sold under pressure by the Hooker Chemical Company to the local school district for a dollar, with the paperwork including a warning about what...
