Ontario: Grassy Narrows Marks 50 Years Of Mercury Poison

Ontario: Grassy Narrows Marks 50 Years Of Mercury Poison   Grassy Narrows calls on ON to fund permanent community run environmental monitoring station; 2010 study shows mercury in fish still often above safe level   Fifty years ago this month, in March 1962 Dryden Chemicals began dumping an estimated 10 metric tonnes of mercury into the Wabigoon River, contaminating the fish which formed the subsistence and economy of three Indigenous communities Asubpeeschoseewagong (Grassy...

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