[All] Fw: Yes, Chemical Valley is still a thing.

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Update on Aamjiwnaang
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On Monday, February 26, 2024, 10:20 AM, Dr. Elaine MacDonald, Ecojustice <subscriber at ecojustice.ca> wrote:

 
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Dear Louisette,

If there’s one thing I’ve learnt in my years of environmental work, it’s that nothing is just ‘given’ to us. Governments and corporations don’t start behaving better out of the goodness of their hearts. We secure our own protections.

For the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, that would mean no longer living with cancer-causing industrial pollution — as is their legal right.

A recently published report by the Ontario government’s Sarnia Area Environmental Health Project confirms what residents have been saying for years. Industrial pollution is out of control, and local people are suffering.
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Approximately 40 per cent of Canada’s chemical industry is clustered near Sarnia, Ontario, in an area known as Chemical Valley. People live there. My friend Ada Lockridge, whom Ecojustice represented, lives there. Beze Gray, one of seven youths suing the Ford government, grew up there.

Ecojustice waded into this fight more than a decade ago and, I’ll be honest, I’m tired of seeing government inaction. I’m tired of multinational conglomerates treating increased cancer rates as simply the cost of doing business. Would any one of those suits allow their kids to breathe the toxic air in Sarnia? The report shows benzene pollution spiking near the Aamjiwnaang baseball diamond.

Benzene is hazardous to human health at any level.

At what point can we start calling this mess what it is, which is regulatory negligence and environmental racism? Year after year. Decade after decade. More than a century has passed, and governments are still ignoring the Aamjiwnaang First Nation’s call for action.

Where else could they get away with this?

Now think about why that is.

Yours in anger,
Dr. Elaine MacDonald,
Healthy Communities program director, Ecojustice
   
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