Decades of mercury exposure has been linked to the high youth suicide rates in an Indigenous community in Canada
Decades of mercury exposure has been linked to the high youth suicide rates in an Indigenous community in Canada
www.theguardian.com
Mercury exposure linked to high youth suicides in Canada First Nation
Researchers who studied three generations of mothers and their children from the community of Grassy Narrows, Ontario, have concluded that sustained exposure to the toxic metal helped cause a suicide rate three times higher than any other First Nations community – which are already far higher than among the country’s general population.
Absolute tragedy.
A corporate crime on the grandest scale. The paper doesn't say whether there were any repercussions. Meanwhile…
How long do you think the delay would be if it concerned the families of the government officials 'responsible' for cleaning the water or building the care home? So much for transparency and accountability in Canadian government.
That's weird considering mercury was and is kinda valuable.
Maybe it was mixed in with something else and wasn't considered valuable enough to salvage/filter out. I also wonder if the 20,000lbs number is over a period of many years. Super messed up either way though, I don't even know where one would start cleaning this up. :(
I didn't think of it like that. Maybe it was mixed up and hard to separate from something else? Or maybe there were high taxes, etc, on commercial waste? Something like that?