Environment committee  It was $500 million.

Environment committee  It was three plants in particular, including General Motors Central Foundry, which is now no longer there. They are currently remediating that site and have allocated $125 million to the site cleanup. It's not enough. They've discovered that the more they dig, the more contaminat

Environment committee  It's all by the companies themselves, but it was mandated by U.S. federal environmental laws.

Environment committee  In regard to the remedial action plans, half of our battle was at the beginning. The St. Lawrence River is one river but you have two remedial action plans, one Canadian and one American, and it just didn't make sense to us. The fish don't recognize the border, the water doesn't

Environment committee  If I may, I'll answer that for her. The mercury levels in our area are from historical discharges, mainly from a Domtar pulp and paper mill that has since closed. What we're seeing is that the mercury levels immediately adjacent to our community are dropping over time, but it a

Environment committee  Yes, historically it's been a problem in regard to first nations participation, whether it's been through the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, or in particular, with the Canada-Ontario agreement. We think that collectively we're making some headway in getting more representat

Environment committee  Right now we think it's very important to put in place some monitoring programs, not just for first nations but throughout the Great Lakes Basin. There needs to be much improved monitoring of water temperatures around the basin to track the temperature increases as they occur, an