The following remarks were given by John-John Baker from South Indian Lake at the Manitoba CEC RCEA Community Meeting for South Indian Lake.
“Where you have kids, or young people that have little blotches of white hair growing on their head and skin blotches. I have some questions about what causes that. And this one guy told me, he was a water specialist, he said it comes from the water, pigmentation, if there is too much copper in your water, or lead.” – John-John Baker, South Indian Lake
Manitoba Clean Environment Commission (MCEC). Regional Cumulative Effects Assessment Community Meeting: South Indian Lake. (December 7, 2017). Transcript of Hearings Held at Thompson, MB. Page 96, lines 7-17. Retrieved from the MCEC website: http://www.cecmanitoba.ca/hearings/regional-cumulative-effects-assesment/doc/Transcripts/RCEAOPCN.pdf
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