The following remarks were given by Jenessa Flett from Split Lake at the Regional Cumulative Effects Assessment Community Meeting: Split Lake.
“I think it was just 2016 they seen a sturgeon with no eyes. We can’t even fish here anymore. We can’t swim. We can’t swim anymore because we get rashes on our skin, or we get sick. And our fish, we can’t even trust eating them any more, you know. It sucks to not be able to eat out of our own lake. I think that’s it.” – Jenessa Flett, Split Lake
Testimony of Jenessa Flett from Split Lake. MCEC Regional Cumulative Effects Assessment Community Meeting: Split Lake. (December 8, 2017). Transcript of Hearings Held at Split Lake, MB. Page 18. Retrieved from the MCEC website: http://www.cecmanitoba.ca/hearings/regional-cumulative-effects-assesment/doc/Transcripts/RCEATCN.pdf
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