“Thank you very much for your donation tonight,” he told a woman shouting about a First Nation's struggle with mercury poisoning
"Nearly five hundred days later, only [one per cent] of the cost to build the facility has flowed and the project is stalled," the Facebook page reads.
Grassy Narrows and the Wabaseemoong First Nation, both in northern Ontario, have dealt with the effects of mercury poisoning for decades. A local river was doused with waste mercury from an upstream chemical plant in the 1960s and 1970s, contaminating the water, the fish that live in it, and the people who consumed both.
The symptoms of mercury poisoning include impaired peripheral vision, muscle weakness, impaired speech, hearing and cognitive function and numbness or stinging pain in the extremities and mouth. The damage from prolonged exposure can be irreversible.Japanese researchers reported in 2016 that more than 90 per cent of the people in Grassy Narrows and the Wabaseemoong First Nation show signs of mercury poisoning, including a new generation of residents.
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