You are correct. How about if the government helps cover up the travesty or runs road block?

I'm betting it was the government that gave the plant in Dryden license to operate. Did the government hand over the license without any responsibility to check on that plant knowing the potential for just such an issue? The government didn't require safeguards and checkpoints, inspections, and updated certifications?

Osky

So should the government be sued for every drunk driving fatality?

Not the same thing at all

Now if the alcohol distillery was selling contaminated alcohol and the government knew about the contaminated alcohol and not only did nothing about it but also hid the truth and tried to keep new about it and how bad it was from getting out


Then yes I would say that they were at fault and subject to legal action not only monitary but legal consequences as well like going to jail for a good long streatch

Question for you guys who are from that area: There is still a big papermill on the end of Wabigoon lake in Dryden, what do they do about mercury these days?

A multi-nation corporation will win every time against a private citizen. That's like trying to prosecute Hillary and Obama for their criminal doings.

Amazing, someones Life works

sad,really sad. Great video...so many watercourses polluted with mercury.....river on my property. We never eat. I googled mercury in watercourses and said alot of it is from burning coal then it settles. Hard to find safe fish to eat!!!

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Nice video and story, would have loved to have seen in before the downfall. Sad for sure. Thanks for sharing.

Interesting video and story. I'd love to knock around in a place like that. It must have been something to see in it's heyday.

In the area the mercury contamination occurred companies, especially large corporations, were usually not held accountable for putting profits ahead of the environment. Pollution was an acceptable by-product of industry. That all started to change in the next decade or so.

No pollution where these came from.

ill bet there is some boco although minimal as it could be maybe

There is naturally occurring mercury in the environment that the fish pick up.
It is not an issue unless you are a pregnant woman eating large fish every day.

i want as very minimal (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) possible in my kid

There is much more bad stuff in store bought food than the grub you get in the bush.That said,Industry has polluted a lot of land and water.Thankfully we have decent environmental laws in place now to protect our natural resources from greedy industrial fat cats.Nothing wrong with industry as long as they spend a bit of money to protect the environment while carrying on business.

I guess the "eyes" up there don't get that big on account of the cold eh Boco?

Or is that your bait?

Hard to tell the size in the pic,the two bigger ones about 3 lb.Thats about the best eating size pickerel.
Seen 25 lb pickerel in the native nets at the fish camp at mile 115,at the mouth of the Little Abitibi river.I prefer the smaller ones for eating,but the big ones are fun to catch.Seen netted sturgeon in a wheelbarrow with the tails dragging on the ground,lol.
Some very big northern pike here too.I find rivers produce bigger fish on average,although there are some lakes that produce monsters like Lake Abitibi,Marathon and Kesagami.

Perfect eating size fish, the two on the right are a little big for my tastes

Here is a home movie from the late 60s of a trip to the lodge. I suggest turning the volume off

It’s amazing what can be found on the web.

https://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php/2015_02455

Yes there still is a mill in operation. 500 employees, a lot of Manitoba wood gets trucked over to there.
https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi28ZL5s9PiAhUCcq0KHfrED10QFjACegQIBBAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Fnews%2Fcanada%2Fthunder-bay%2Fdryden-pulp-collective-agreement-1.4912960&usg=AOvVaw2GqqViDhPGGhReaZjpUctQ
They have changed the way in which they bleach the kraft paper now.
My brother did his pre-masters collecting crayfish along the system and testing them for mercury. Their levels get elevated very quickly because the eat so much vegetation that absorbes the mercury in the water column. When he presented his data that is when the brown stuff hit the fan and fish were sampled the following summer to open the whole system up.
I pity the poor people that live on the reserves and rely on the fish for a diet