Decades-old mercury pollution still causing neurological and birth defects in Ontario First Nation
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 - 13:01
in Earth & Climate
Forty-five years ago, mercury pollution from a pulp and paper mill poisoned hundreds of kilometres of waterways in northwestern Ontario. Now community members from the Wabaseemoong First Nation want to know why so few have been compensated and why the amount given hasn't changed since the 1980s.