Lawsuit demands Indigenous control over future projects in the traditional territory of the Grassy Narrows First Nation
Grassy Narrows First Nation Chief Rudy Turtle is refused entry to Queen’s Park in Toronto to serve a Statement of Claim to Premier Doug Ford regarding contamination of water in the community, on June 4.A First Nation that has lived the past five decades on a river contaminated with mercury from a nearby pulp and paper mill is suing Ontario and Canada over what band members say is the governments’ failure to protect their right to live safely on their traditional territory.
The lawsuit says the failure by the Crown to stop the contamination and clean it up continues to violate the community’s Anishinaabe way of life, which includes laws, cultural practices and beliefs that protect the lands and waters in a sustainable way. A new study from Western University found the mill is discharging effluent that exacerbates the existing mercury contamination.Chief Rudy Turtle of Grassy Narrows was at the news conference to launch the lawsuit in Toronto on Tuesday morning with a small group of supporters.
The lawsuit claims that throughout the 1960s and 1970s, tonnes of mercury a year were being dumped in the water that flowed downstream into communities such as Grassy Narrows, poisoning their freshwater fish source and making people sick.
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