Can trappers actually trap anymore? Can they go on the land anymore? How many more people are going to die because of the conditions of the ice, because of the food that’s around us?
“All they see is the dollars…”
“And like Janet said, we have to spend money on this water because ours is not clean enough to drink anymore, and that is so sad.”
“Water is killing our people today.”
“Garbage, I have seen a lot of cans, beer bottles, everything in the water exposing it, killing our people, leading to the cancer, disease.”
“…they seen a sturgeon with no eyes…”
“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. “
“We need that water in our community, and Hydro is not providing that.”
“And water, drinking water, it is affecting us, our health. I buy lots, every week I buy about five, six cases in Thompson.”