Residents of Ontario First Nation sickened after high benzene levels detected
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- čas přidán 29. 05. 2024
- The people of Aamjiwnaang First Nation are demanding a chemical plant, which is located right across the street from their reserve, be shut down after being repeatedly exposed to high levels of benzene, a cancer-causing chemical.
Many said the pollution left them feeling ill and anxious about the air they breathe. Carolyn Jarvis reports on how the First Nation is facing a possible environmental emergency.
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It is so Canadian to build a chemical plant next door to residential area.... well not every residential area.
Yeah chief sold em out like a true politician
This chemical plant just started spewing the noxious substance recently or has it always been there?
Why the hell is the reserve in that heavy industrial area! Are we still trying to kill Indigenous people? This isn’t the only place they’ve built industry all around a reserve either, there are others in Ontario.
Of course government should shut them down, give them maximum fines for toxic emissions and give the reserve new clean land and build them a new community. They shouldn’t have to go through this type of thing over and over and have to fight for years for help.
Shame, shame, shame on the companies, on whoever gave the industries the permits and zoned the land industrial, shame on all of us for not giving them more support and help . We took their land, are raping the resources , destroying the environment and treating them like they aren’t worthy of a decent life. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
The chief approved it
The town of Sarnia is right there too.
Why is the reserve next to an industrial area? Don’t you mean why is there an industrial area in their reserve? It’s cause the reservations old chief sold them out to this company. Now the children have to deal with it.
Ask big chief how much he got for allowing the plant there.
After it was detected? Not before? Ya sounds about right
Well cheif sold yeah out whats new
More like only play they had , companies were stealing it out from under them ,on an angle anyway. Only resource that had left was land sale. They were put on reserves. That originally all of Sarnia was to be there properly. Then they got less land when reserve was made. Just like other treaty deals they didn't get there just land owed. They got less then 10% of the land they were suppose to get when reserves were made. Oil was found by Europeans when the boats went back covered in oil from this area for fur trading. It got exploited , just like the folks on the reserves did out of getting the original treaty lands they fought for. Which would of con ected the kettle point, aamjiwnaang, down to Michigan also both sides of the st. Clair river..
@@CanadianCombine-Buck you have no facts or details in this statement.
@@FranklinFleming-lm1yuI just googled it and it’s true
This should not be happening AT ALL!
This is disgusting. I feel for the people ❤
It's unfortunate but I think everyone should have access to cheap accurate monitoring devices and cheap environmental laboratory analysis.
There was concerns about our drinking water. Eventually we were hooked up to city water.
But the water lines were never touched so what was accumulated in them is still slowly leaching into our water.
I really hate it when I see large corporations state things such as "we meet all government environmental standards", etc. Well obviously municipal, provincial, and federal governments need to step up and change those standards! But of course they won't, and if or when they do it's always far too late.
And many people wonder how they get the cancer 🙏
The provincial government monitors all these facilities and inspects them frequently. I'd be interested in knowing Ashley Fisher's qualifications in making this type of severe call. I see she has 2 certificates (CAFM) Computer Aided Facility Management and (CIHRP) Certified Indigenous Human Resources Professional but no other university degrees for support. Also, Benzene is found in glues, adhesives, cleaning products, hair spray, body deodorant, paint strippers, second hand tobacco smoke, gasoline fumes, motor vehicle exhaust and is also naturally produced by volcanoes and forest fires
Yeah but still begs teh question as to why you would build a chemical plant 2 feet from a reserve. Imagine living year round around any plant that produces chemicals.
There should be a safe air distance around the reserves for factories to operate. They been dealing with fumes, poisoned water, no hospitals on reserve, so they get the actual truth about health issues. All cause off the reserve could mpanies wont allow 600volt hydro lines in for expantion of there own medical facilities. They already left with the mercury blob in the water for years also, contaminating food sources. It used to be so bad they would see a blue haze across the ground like fog. Like someone ran a motor rich on oil. The water actually changed the sex of there children before being born, by chemically affecting the mothers before pregnacy.
Whole article about the medical issues they have had to deal with. Written by Mrs. Plain.
Sarnia always had the highest pollution rates
First Nations in Canada are people can be good and strong most of are never easy to please or be able in live in homes or in residential apartments
I love the comments, yes we all know the chief sold out his people. Yes, we get it. Let’s actually worry about the innocent people here, you heartless bastards.
Benzene or opioids?
Wth are you implying ?
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