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Grassy Narrows requests environmental assessment of logging plan - Clearcutting will elevate mercury poison in fish
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http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR2041.htm
Date Written: 28/01/2014
Year Published: 2014
Resource Type: Article
Grassy Narrows First Nation is calling for a thorough environmental assessment of the newly approved plan for clearcut logging on their Territory - an important test of Ontario's environmental laws.
Abstract: Grassy Narrows - Grassy Narrows First Nation is calling for a thorough environmental assessment of the newly approved plan for clearcut logging on their Territory - an important test of Ontario's environmental laws. Grassy Narrows is concerned that the planned logging could harm the health of their families by raising mercury poison levels in local fish. The logging plan makes no mention of mercury, even though Grassy Narrows Territory is the site of Canada's most infamous case of mercury poiso...
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