- The Canada Metals story: A chronology
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
The ongoing struggle against lead pollution in South Riverdale.
- Canada's Toxic Chemical Valley
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
About the effects of "Chemical Valley" in the Aamjiwnaang-Sarnia area.
- Canadian lawyers and Chevron's court battle over environmental damage in Ecuador
Iler, Kirsten
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A storm of controversy erupted amongst Canadian lawyers when the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) decided to intervene in Chevron's appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. The appeal is part of Chevron's battle against Ecuadorian Indigenous peoples who seek to enforce a massive court judgment against the company for environmental damage in Ecuador.
- GMOs, Global Agribusiness and the Destruction of Choice
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
One of the myths perpetuated by the pro-GMO (genetically modified organisms) lobby is that critics of GMOs in agriculture are denying choice to farmers and have an ideological agenda. The narrative is that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies, including GM crops. But GM agriculture is not 'feeding the world', nor has it been designed to do so. The choice for farmers between a technology based on broken promises and conventional non-GMO agriculture is no choice at all.
- Grand Council Treaty #3 supports Grassy Narrows in their stand for mercury justice and their stand against clear cut logging
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The Chiefs of Treaty #3 First Nations in assembly voted unanimously to support Grassy Narrows First Nation in their demands for mercury justice and an end to clear cut logging on their Homeland.
- Mercury poison: Grassy Narrows to release new report on devastating health impacts
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
50 years after dumping began governments refuse to acknowledge Minamata Disease.
- Mercury Poisoning
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
Quaker involvement with the issue of mercury poisoning at White Dog and Grassy Narrows Reserves.
- National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Slick Water
Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Mot Powerful Industry
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
A story of abuses by the fossil fuel industry and governments, telling the story of fracking rhough the lens of a legal battle to expose the truth. Nikiforuk raises stark questions about the role of Big Oil in government, society's obsession with mining low-grade oil and gas formations, and the future of democracy.
- Soil removal a possibility
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1984
The soil in the South Riverdale area is so contaminated with lead that it may be necessary to remove it.
- Stupid to the Last Drop
How Alberta is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care)
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
As the world teeters on the edge of catastrophic climate change, Alberta plunges ahead with uncontrolled development of its fossil fuels, levelling its northern Boreal forest to get at the oil sands, and carpet bombing its southern half with tens of thousands of gas wells.
|
AlterLinks
© 2019. The information provided is copyright and may not be reproduced in any form or by any means (whether electronic, mechanical or photographic), or stored in an electronic retrieval system, without written permission of the publisher. The content may not be resold, republished, or redistributed. Indexing and search applications by Ulli Diemer and Chris DeFreitas.
|
