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I was so excited when they said I got to do an interview with you. Announcer: q with Tom Power. Available now onCBC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts. ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) >> Andrew: hello, I'm andrew nichols. >> Jacqueline: and I'm jacqueline happenson. >> Andrew:THIS is cbc news network. >>> Contamination at grassy narrows first nations. Now new research suggests that industrial pollution is still happening. We'll get reaction from the chief of that first nation. >> Jacqueline: plus, the wnba is finally officially coming to toronto. The league formally unveiled its new franchise this morning. And we'll talk about what went into getting the team there. >> Andrew: one of canada's worst environmental disasters is getting worse. That's according to new research from scientists on behalf of the grassy narrows first nation. It points to how the people in that community have been getting sick for three generations. The study suggests that ongoing industrial discharges from a nearby paper mill is combining with previously leaked mercury, to create an even more toxic compound. Methylmercury. In the early 1960s and 1970s, nine tonnes of mercury was dumped into the river system near the manitoba border. Methylmercury accumulates in fish and poisons people who eat them it. Can cause neuro-muscular problems and lead to death. The cbc's meagan fitzpatrick was at the conference in toronto where the study was released and is joining us now live. What more can you tell us about the study? >> Reporter: well, the lead researcher is brian branferew, and the question is whether high concentrations of sulfate and organic matter in that river water -- whether that is contributing to enhancing the levels of methylmercury in that river. And he says that the answer is, yes. His conclusion is that the historic contamination of that river is being made worse by what is currently going on with the current mill that is operating in dryden, ontario. Different owners of the mills from the 1960s to 1970s to now, andrew, but this researcher is contributing the higher sulfate and organic matter to that mill. The researcher saying that there's no other evidence of any other source of sulfate. And he says that what is going on is that the sulfate and the organic matter released into the water by the affluent from that mill is combining with the historically contaminated riverbed, the mercury in that riverbed, to produce methylmercury. And he says that the concentrations are higher than he would have suspected. And he is saying that this kind of confirms what they were already concerned about based on previous studies that he's worked on. Here's more of what he said -- >> So we can connect the dots, right, we can draw the line directly between the increasing amount of methylmercury in the environment and in fish. So the corollary is true, if we reduce the amount of sulfate and organic matter and take those two ingredients out of the equation, then the mercury levels in fish will come down. >> Reporter: so, again, he's saying that this situation is making things worse, not better, delaying the recovery of that river water and continuing to pose a risk, obviously, to the health of the people of grassy narrows who consume fish from the river. Now he's saying that he's not an expert, but this is a technical report conducted for the council of grassy narrows first nation but he wanted to have the findings out there and releasing them publicly with their permission. Again, his main point was that if you dial down, he said dial down the heat on that process that makes methylmercury, then the mercury levels in the fish will go down. >> Andrew: so what kind of reaction is this study getting? >> Reporter: well, we have reached out to the mill. Now, again, it is under new ownership as of last august. And so they've only been operating it for less than a year. But when we reached out to them ahead of this study being released this morning, they told us they hadn't seen it yet and, therefore, couldn't comment on it. We do have comments from the chief of grassy narrows first nation, rudy turtle, who says that he is disappointed by these findings but not entirely surprised. Here's more of what he told us -- >> Our position has always been that everybody in the community should be compensated for the damages that are being done,

especially with the new generation and the children that are growing up. The river should be cleaned up for them and they should be compensated because they still are taking mercury into their system. So there is a lot of work that still needs to be done in terms of compensation and in terms of health studies and whatever needs to be done. >> Reporter: and he said, you know, that fish is a staple part of the community's diet there, and it's a traditional practise for the community there. And he says that the community has long been advocating for more to be done to improve health of people there. 90% of whom it is believed that are suffering from the effects of mercury poisoning. And he says that this new study kind of confirms suspicions that they had that the situation wasn't improving in terms of the mercury levels in that river. We also have reaction -- political reaction -- from N.D.P. M.P.P.s who are calling on the ontario government to take some action, potentially stopping the wastewater from being released into the river in the first place, andrew. We have reached out to the provincial government, the federal government points to the fact that they're helping to fund a mercury care centre -- a home. That construction is set to get underway this summer that will provide some healthcare to people in grassy narrows. >> Andrew: meagan, thank you. Meagan fitzpatrick in toronto. >>> So you heard a bit there from the grassy narrows chief rudy turtle and he's joining me now from thunder bay to tell me more about the impact that this has had on the community. And, chief, I appreciate you taking time to talk to us. Thank you. >> Yeah, good afternoon. >> Andrew: so tell us about how you feel about this latest discovery. >> Well, it's just making things worse. Realised as they mentioned before that we did have our suspicions, some of our community members drive on red lake highway and sometimes they used to see all of the colour of the river, and also there's [indiscernible] and they used to think that there's something wrong here. So their suspicions have been confirmed today that the water is still being polluted. And so the people will not be happy and it's very disappointing that after all of these years of approaching the two levels of government that they would allow this to continue on. Like, we had hoped that it would stop, and also were assured before from previous owners of the mill that their practises were safe. Better than they were back in the 1970s, but apparently that isn't so. >> Andrew: so, chief, what do you want to happen now? >> Well, we want action. We want something to be done. This has to stop. The plowting polluting has to stop. So either shut the mill down or get your act together and to find solutions to putting pollution in the water. There's people living downriver, it's not just grassy narrows and it's possibly all the way down to winnipeg river. And this river, there's sports fishermen who go on the english river as well. So we have people from kenora that come up to the area to fish in our rivers. So you're not just poisoning grassy narrows here, but poisoning other people who use this river. So definitely something has to be done. >> Andrew: and can you tell me how this has impacted you personally and the members of your community? >> Well, for one thing, knowing that the fish are poisoned, or the fish are not healthy, kind of when you want to eat the fish you hesitate to eat the fish. Because you know that they are poisoned. There is -- they do tell you to limit how much you eat, but at the same time, kind of difficult

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