<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5313">Hi Everyone</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5313"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5313" dir="ltr">I was busy with my family the last few days and was totally out of the loop on the news until a friend contacted me this morning to tell me of an oil spill in the Grand River. I went to investigate with my video to record what I saw and I was shocked.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5313" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5313" dir="ltr">I went to the Peter Hallman Trail behind the store STOP off Victoria St. I walked south from there along the River and found the spot where the trail was closed. Knowing this is Treaty Lands I had no hesitation to enter the site. Provincial laws don't apply to me here. I am an Indigenous woman on Treaty Lands.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5313" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5313" dir="ltr">I went down the trail with camera and recorded a path of deforestation they did to facilitate the large excavators getting to the scene. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5313" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5313" dir="ltr">The booms span over 250 meters yet there were areas outside the booms that were clearly unprotected and oil saturated.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5313" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5313" dir="ltr">The spill traveled a significant distance UPSTREAM indicating there must have been a very large plume discharged because it goes a distance north of where the point of entry is. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5313" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5313" dir="ltr">I witnessed the rocks and sand saturated with oil. I saw SARA protected barn swallows, mollusk shells and killdeers which are birds being considered for Species At Risk listing. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5313" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5313" dir="ltr">I saw the pipe where the solvent dumped the toxin and how it ended up along the River's edge. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5313" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5313" dir="ltr">I also went to the sewer that was being flushed. The Vac truck was in front of a company called GFL Environmental. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5313" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5313" dir="ltr">I don't know how or who put this solvent here but the quantity of solvent spilled was massive. Here is the video I made of what I witnessed. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5313" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5313" dir="ltr">Lulu </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5313"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5313" dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_KTgox3Zeo" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5373">Grand River Oil Spill May 1 2016</a><br></div><div style="width:450px; font-family: 'Georgia', 'Times', 'Times New Roman', 'serif';margin-top:5px; margin-bottom: 5px; background-color: #ffffff;" contenteditable="false" id="enhancrCard_1" class="link-enhancr-attachment link-enhancr-element richcompose-card"><table class="link-enhancr-element" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:450px; height:170px; position: relative; display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5401"><tbody id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5400"><tr class="link-enhancr-element" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462158466695_5577"><td class="link-enhancr-element" colspan="8" style="height: 1px; 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