Grassy Narrows First Nation sees start of mercury treatment facility decades after the river was poisoned

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Williamson, like roughly 90 per cent of residents in Grassy Narrows First Nation, has been impacted by mercury poisoning that dates back to the 1960s and ’70s, when the Dryden Paper Mill dumped about nine tonnes of the toxin into the English-Wabigoon River System in northwestern Ontario.   Click here to read the story.   Click the following link for more information on Governance.