Stop polluting the land

Angela Misri
150 Days of Turtle Island
1 min readAug 14, 2017

Ideally, stop polluting ALL the land, but let’s bring some attention to First-Nations’ land that does not belong to the corporations polluting it.

  1. Elsipogtog VS SWN Resources fracking — read more about the story here in the community’s own words: http://www.ammsa.com/content/elsipogtog-and-fracking-protests
  2. Aamjiwnaang First Nation VS 60! “industrial facilities found within a 25 kilometre radius of Aamjiwnaang lands” — read more about their story here: https://www.ecojustice.ca/changing-course-chemical-valley/
  3. The drinking water crisis effects more than one First Nations group with more than 150 drinking water advisories in communities across Canada.
    Read more about this ongoing humanitarian issue here: https://www.ecojustice.ca/drinking-water-crisis-first-nations-communities-violates-human-rights/

In case you’re not sure what fracking is btw, TED Talks has a great animation that explains it:

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Angela Misri
150 Days of Turtle Island

Journalist, author of the Portia Adams Adventure series, Podcaster at Ada’s Sisters who teaches at Ryerson and the University of Toronto.