The following remarks were given by Samson Dick from Gillam at the Keeyask Generation Project Public Hearing Community Meeting: Gillam.
“They killed the fish and they killed the birds, they even killed the animals. In fact they even killed people. We lost a lot of our people, even the young people are dying. They never used to be like that before. After all of this town comes up, a lot of things happening, a lot of people dying, cancer comes up. I know it was transformers, you know, when the wind spreads them all over the place, they are flying around all over the place with radiation. Sometimes there is transformers, they leak. I know one of them transformers blew up here at Kettle about two years ago, I think, a year or two years, something like that. There was lots of smoke, there was black smoke in there. Hydro never does nothing, never even says nothing. So I figured that’s where all of that sickness come from. In the 1940s when I was living, I was just young, everybody was okay, there was not much sickness. Everybody is okay until the Hydro moved in, everything happening.” – Samson Dick, Gillam
Testimony of Samson Dick from Gillam. Keeyask Generation Project Public Hearing Community Meeting: Gillam. (September 24, 2013). Transcript of Hearings Held at the Gillam Rec Centre in Gillam, MB. Page 59-60. Retrieved from the MCEC website: http://www.cecmanitoba.ca/hearings/keeyask-generation-project/doc/Transcripts/Public_Hearing_Sept_24,_2013_-_Gillam.pdf
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