The following remarks were given by Mike Sutherland from Peguis First Nation at the Keeyask Generation Project Public Hearings.
“We cannot pick medicines from our river systems any more because of all the flooding. We have to travel out and away from that river system, you know, even along the shores, the lakes, some areas where there is, you know, the levels of water are high and a lot of contamination from overland flooding and so on, we can’t pick there either. So we have to go, a lot of our people go north even as far as Long Point, up by Grand Rapids, and others will travel further north to wherever they have relatives in Northern Manitoba.” – Mike Sutherland, Peguis First Nation
Testimony of Mike Sutherland from Peguis First Nation. Manitoba Clean Environment Commission (MCEC). Keeyask Generation Project Public Hearings. (December 11, 2013). Transcript of Hearings Held at the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg, MB. Volume 26; page 6061. Retrieved from the MCEC website: http://cecmanitoba.ca/hearings/keeyask-generation-project/doc/Transcripts/Transcripts_-_Keeyask_Winnipeg_Hearing_Dec_11,2013.pdf
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