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Dr. Colby sticks to his well comments By Mary Beth Corcoran mary@chathamvoice.com
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Dave Brooks of Goodreau Excavation cuts up a huge tree on Monday that floodwaters along the Thames River deposited on the shoreline near the base of the Third Street Bridge in late February. Ryan Goodreau said all the silt enveloping the tree quickly dulled their chainsaw teeth, which slowed the cleanup process. The provincial government recently announced it has activated its Disaster Recovery Assistance for Ontarians to help Chatham and Thamesville residents who suffered damage during the flood. See story on page 2.
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Calls by area MPPs and the members of Water Wells First (WWF) for a health hazard investigation into the effects of drinking water with black shale in it seems to be falling on deaf ears. WWF spokesperson Kevin Jakubec, however, said now that the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change has acknowledged their testing results that show the sediment is full of black shale, known to contain heavy metals, they are hopeful they are one step closer to a health hazard investigation. “Last week, our scientific experts for WWF met with the Ministry of the Environment and presented our findings of black shale in the contaminated wells and the ministry accepted those findings and that is a major step forward in having a health hazard investigation started immediately,” Jakubec said. “Premier Wynne told the public two weeks ago at a public meeting in Wind-
sor on the record that the water is safe. But yet now the government has firmly in its hands evidence that black shale is in the water and because black shale is an environmental hazard, the premier cannot say that the water is safe.” Jakubec also said with the premier saying the water is safe, any commercial food preparation using well water with black shale in it is acceptable. However, any food products made with the contaminated water would be in violation of the Federal Food and Drug Act as an adulterated substance. “The premier has to be held accountable for her statements and the only way to do that is to call a health hazard investigation,” he added. “We’ve asked the premier to shut down North Kent Wind 1 project until a health hazard investigation can be completed, to continue to provide water to affected families and newly affected families, to direct the Minister of Health to begin a health hazard investigation.”
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