OTTAWA — A First Nation in southern Ontario has a simple message for the delegates who are gathered in Ottawa this week to negotiate a treaty to curb plastic waste around the world: don't leave us out.
OTTAWA — A First Nation in southern Ontario has a simple message for the delegates who are gathered in Ottawa this week to negotiate a treaty to curb plastic waste around the world: don't leave us out.
Nahmabin said she knows first-hand what it is like to deal with such pollution, growing up in an Anishinaabe community near Sarnia, Ont., in what is nicknamed Canada's"chemical valley.""We know that these plants are causing cancer," said Plain, who serves on the community's youth council."And yet, we just have to live with that."
The Frankfurt-based company described the shutdown in one media report as temporary, calling the health and safety of staff and the community"paramount" and that the plant would reopen once a"mechanical issue" is addressed. Ontario's environment ministry has issued a compliance order to Ineos, requiring it to develop a plan before the end of the week to prevent, reduce and eliminate wastewater discharge of benzene.
"We're a little late to the game with this being the fourth . It would have been great if efforts would have been made to include us from the very beginning," she said.
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