The Toxic Legacies Project examines the history and legacy of arsenic contamination at Giant Mine. The project is a partnership among researchers at Memorial University (John Sandlos and Arn Keeling) and Lakehead University, (Ron Harpelle) the Goyatiko Language Society (a Yellowknives Dene First Nation) non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the Weledeh language), and Alternative North (a Yellowknife environmental and social justice coalition that conducts public interest research).
The project is a response to the Canadian government’s Giant Mine Remediation Project to freeze arsenic underground in pepetuity, a project that has recently undergone and extensvie environmental assessment. As a “Partnership Development” project (funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)), we also aim to communicate our research results in a way that will engage the community of Yellowknife and the broader concerned public.
To do this, we divided our work into five interconnected sub-projects:
The Yellowknives Dene and Arsenic (a history and memory project)
Communicating with Future Generations
The Guardians of Eternity Film
Understanding Mine Remediation
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EdgeYK articles:Sept. 24, 2014: Giant Coverup: Years ago, arsenic killed a N’dilo toddler and poisoned many others, but it was business as usual at the gold mine. (http://edgeyk.com/article/giant-coverup/)Oct. 1, 2015: Danger! Danger!: How will people 300 years from now understand the hazards of Giant Mine’s toxic legacy – enough underground arsenic trioxide dust to fill the Bellanca Building and potentially contaminate the entire watershed (http://edgeyk.com/article/danger-danger/)Oct. 1, 2015: Designing for the future at Giant Mine: A youthful perspective (http://edgeyk.com/article/designing-for-the-future-at-giant-mine/)Northern Public Affairs blog:Oct. 29, 2015: Toxic Legacies at Giant Mine (http://www.northernpublicaffairs.ca/index/toxic-legacies-at-giant-mine/)Under the Toxic Legacies project link, perhaps we could also include a link to the book, Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: http://press.ucalgary.ca/books/9781552388044.