It is hard to believe that 42 years after the Dryden Chemical Company mill was forced to stop dumping toxins in the river local residents are still being poisoned and the Harper cronies are trying to force Bill C-38, which reduces environmental studies and standards, through the house.
Will we have to wait another 42 years before we find out how the water in Alberta is killing those who hunt and fish the rivers because our Federal government is blind to the truth.
Japanese doctor Masazumi Harada, who earned honours from the United Nations for his research into severe mercury poisoning known as Minamata disease, has produced a report saying similar conditions are still prevailing on the Grassy Narrows and White Dog First Nations near Dryden, Ont.
Harada found that of the 160 Grassy Narrows and White Dog residents he examined, 59 per cent were showing signs of ongoing mercury poisoning. Symptoms ranged from tunnel vision and loss of co-ordination to tremors and seizures.
Of those showing signs of poisoning, Harada said 39 per cent had symptoms severe enough to merit a diagnosis of Minamata disease.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/two-ontario-first-nations-still-plagued-mercury-poisoning-234425726.html
In 2010, Greg Rickford, parliamentary secretary to the minister of aboriginal affairs, said the English-Wabigoon river system had been significantly cleaned up and was currently yielding untainted fish.
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