Saturday, December 29, 2012

First Nations Elder Pleads for Help After Mercury Poisoning

CBC News
Betty Riffel says mercury from Dryden, Ontario paper mill poisoned her people and is looking for compensation. Details here.

1 comment:

John Fefchak said...

And our Manitoba Government condones the dumping of Captured Arsenic by issuing a licence to the town of Virden which allows arsenic to be put back into a creek water source. After a journey of about 3 miles this creek empties into the Assiniboine River.
Is this Foolish or Crazy…the choice is yours.

Glacier collapse caused Nepal’s deadly flash flood — a sign of things to come?

Journal  nature Global warming is making high-altitude regions unstable, and could trigger more frequent landslides and floods. Story here.