The following remarks were given by Edith Grace Mckay from Cross Lake at the Keeyask Generation Project Public Hearing Community Meeting: Cross Lake.
“I remember as a child, I am in my mid 40’s, but I still remember when I had to haul a pail of water just down the bank from my mom’s. It was clear, and today, I can’t even drink from it. You go to our cabin, which is probably an hour away, an hour away from here. We, I can’t even drink from that water. I am too scared I might get sick. And, then we have to depend on chlorine. Water treatment plants, chlorine, and our people are getting sick from it. Because we don’t know. We are not trained to know this chlorine, some of us don’t know. And, people are going, high number of people are going on dialysis. It is so sad that our people have to go through health issues because of our water being damaged. It saddens me that our people have to live in poverty, go through health issues, when they can’t afford, the majority of them are on welfare.” – Edith Grace Mckay, Cross Lake
Testimony of Edith Grace Mckay from Cross Lake. Keeyask Generation Project Public Hearings Community Meeting: Cross Lake. (October 9, 2013). Held at the Pimicikamak Band Hall in Cross Lake, MB. Page 61-62. Retrieved from the MCEC website: http://www.cecmanitoba.ca/hearings/keeyask-generation-project/doc/Transcripts/Public_Hearing_Oct_9,2013_Cross_Lake.pdf
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