by Daniel N. Paul, CM, ONS, Mi’kmaw Elder and Historian

Industrial Waste polluted Boat Harbour, Environmental Racism at its Worst

Chief Raymond Francis.

On January 31, 2019, the plug is scheduled to be pulled on the use of Boat Harbour as an industrial waste lagoon. Will it happen? The only man who can see that it does happen is Premier Stephen McNeil, a man, whom my experience in dealing with, has proven to be a man of his word, and his word on this matter is that it will happen on the date specified.

There were three Pictou Landing Band Chiefs who, in my estimation, carried the battle to see the Boat Harbour matter brought to the point where it is today, after 52 years of Band members being exposed to the toxic mess, a Boat Harbour Remediation Project.

Chief Andrea Paul, who ...

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