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Grassy Narrows Chief welcomes Wynne's clean-up promise and calls for swift results
Sources News Release
http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR2820.htm
Date Written: 13/02/2017
Year Published: 2017
Resource Type: Article
Grassy Narrows Chief Simon Fobister is responding today to a new commitment made on Friday by premier Wynne to clean the English-Wabigoon River. The river has been highly contaminated since 1962 when a paper company in Dryden began dumping 9,000 kg
Abstract: Grassy Narrows Chief Simon Fobister is responding today to a new commitment made on Friday by premier Wynne to clean the English-Wabigoon River. The river has been highly contaminated since 1962 when a paper company in Dryden began dumping 9,000 kg of untreated mercury waste into the river - contaminating the fish and poisoning three generations of people in Grassy Narrows and two neighbouring First Nations. Until 1970 Grassy Narrows had near full employment in fishing businesses and fish are st...
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