First Nation wants Ottawa to help clean up plastic waste left behind by 27-year boil water advisory – CBC

Feb 02, 2022

Neskantaga has relied on plastic water bottles and jugs to ensure safe drinking water for 27 years

A remote northern Ontario First Nation wants Ottawa to help it find an environmentally responsible way to dispose of the thousands of empty water bottles that have piled up over 27 years under a long-term drinking water advisory.

Neskantaga, a fly-in Oji-Cree community with approximately 300 members located about 450 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, Ont., marked a grim milestone on Tuesday — the longest drinking water advisory of any First Nation.

“It shouldn’t be like that in a country like Canada,” Chief Wayne Moonias said.

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