Attawapiskat still being ignored

After waiting eight years for a new school, 700 students at Attawapiskat First Nations in Northern Ontario will instead be evacuated from the community to protect them from further toxic exposure to a 30-year-old diesel-oil spill under the old school. The demolition of the old school in March - nearly a decade after it was closed down due to contamination - has released noxious fumes causing nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea in the local residents.

Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada Chuck Strahl doesn't see what all the fuss is about.

I just cannot believe this is still going on.
Let Chuck know you are watching. Send him a cluebat at ottawa@chuckstrahl.com and cc it to NDP MPs Charlie Angus - AngusC@parl.gc.ca. and Gilles Bisson -GBisson@ndp.on.ca who have made a video of the people in this community telling their story.
That video is up at Cam Holstrom's who has been on this for months now.
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Just another business expense

Nearly ten months after 500 migrating ducks died in the toxic waste of a Syncrude tailings pond in the tar sands, the governments of Canada and Alberta have charged the company with breaking two environmental laws. Their sudden interest was apparently prompted by a private lawsuit launched last month.

The maximum combined penalty that can be levied against Syncrude under those laws is $800,000.

The G&M reports that this amount "represents less than one hour of production revenue from the mine".

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