MEDIA ADVISORY   May 30, 2012                                          

Contact: David Sone 647-386-1481

Mercury poison:  Grassy Narrows to 

release new report on devastating health 

impacts

50 years after dumping began governments refuse to acknowledge Minamata 

Disease

Toronto – The people of Grassy Narrows are still suffering from the debilitating health impacts 

of mercury poison fifty years after a Dryden mill began dumping 10 tonnes of the neurotoxin 

into Grassy Narrows’ English-Wabigoon River.  Indigenous Grassy Narrows community 

members are travelling 2,000 km to Toronto by foot, train, and bus to release a newly translated 

health study on their community by renowned Japanese mercury expert Dr. Harada.  They will 

speak out about their long road to justice, challenge the Premier to eat their local fish, and join 

hundreds of supporters in deploying 15,000 square feet of blue fabric to create a wild river that 

will flow to Queen’s Park to demand long overdue justice for their people and protection for the 

waters and forests on which they depend.  

 

  

FISH FRY.  Wednesday June 6, 

Grassy Narrows challenges Premier McGuinty to eat their local fish at a traditional fish 

fry on an open wood fire. 

Queens Park south lawn.

 

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