CANS 501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Radical Sr8, Neskantaga First Nation, Muskrat Falls

• School: McGill University
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CANS 501
• Professor: Marianne A Stenbaek

Document Summary

Lecture #8 nov 1st (notes were graciously provided by tristan) 30% of water treatment systems in first nations communities are at risk. One first nation community (neskantaga first nation) were not able to use water for over 20 years. In 2001, human development index = 8th percent in canada. Aboriginal canadian human development index was ranked at 32. There are more boil water advisories are in areas with many aboriginal peoples. Furthermore, most aboriginals do not report their bad drinking water. Muskrat falls development a victory for science and simple decency. http://www. theglobeandmail. com/opinion/editorials/a-victory-for-science-and-simple- decency-at-muskrat-falls/article32554465/ mercury worries = there is actually mercury in the ground; it is inert and not active. What makes it active is having rotten vegetation on it, which liberates the mercury from the ground, and it becomes methylmercury. The solution had 3 parts: more research on mercury, removing the old soil + vegetation where there is mercury, include the innu and inuit traditional knowledge.