http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/1758/0 en http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/pressure-mounts-ontario-government-remediate-grass/35240 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> New study outlines possible remediation method; community and supporters take to Toronto streets on Thursday </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/river_run_0.jpg" alt="" title="Seen across from Queen&#039;s Park. Photo: freegrassy.net" width="450" height="253" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/river_run_2_0.jpg" alt="" title="Banner for the River Run." width="450" height="169" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>&ldquo;The first protest had been in 1975,&quot; says Judy Da Silva of Grassy Narrows First Nation. That was just a few years after a pulp mill in Dryden stopped dumping mercury into Grassy Narrows&#39; waterways. By that time, Japanese researchers had come to study the impact. &quot;[Community members] went with the Japanese people and they protested there [at the Dryden mill].</p> <p><a href="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/pressure-mounts-ontario-government-remediate-grass/35240" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/pressure-mounts-ontario-government-remediate-grass/35240#comments David Gray-Donald Indigenous Asubpeeschoseewagong avi lewis david suzuki First Nation Grassy Narrows Grassy Narrows First Nation indigenous leadnow mercury remediation River Run Thu, 02 Jun 2016 00:18:50 +0000 David Gray-Donald 35240 at http://toronto.mediacoop.ca