The following remarks were given by Will Dumas from Split Lake at the Regional Cumulative Effects Assessment Community Meeting: Split Lake.
“I know how the water has affected us. Water is killing our people today. Too much. This is like a living nightmare for the past 60 years. 18 years, I have been living here a long time. Water is affecting us. Garbage, I have seen a lot of cans, beer bottles, everything in the water exposing it, killing our people, leading to the cancer, disease.” – Will Dumas, Split Lake
Testimony of Will Dumas from Split Lake. MCEC Regional Cumulative Effects Assessment Community Meeting: Split Lake. (December 8, 2017). Transcript of Hearings Held at Split Lake, MB. Page 27-28 Retrieved from the MCEC website: http://www.cecmanitoba.ca/hearings/regional-cumulative-effects-assesment/doc/Transcripts/RCEATCN.pdf
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