[the full, long, working, version of this is at triballaw.]
I don't know how I missed this. One of Dean's first acts after Snelling's death was to reverse his position on Hydro-Quebec's Great Whale project -- a project that was known at the time to be the sole cause for a five-fold increase in neo-natal and ante-natal methylmercury uptake in children in Cree and Innu villages located in the roadless area of northern Quebec. He could have killed The Great Whale.
We joke in Maine that all a person needs to take the temprature in the woods is a trout, a reference to Houlter-Chem and down-wind fall-out from dirty coal plants in Ohio (I'll have an order of acid rain with a side of methylmercury please). But we don't have five-fold above "safe", we're just above "safe". For fish eaters who are not nursing mothers, mothers-to-be, and children under age 5, who uh, don't eat local fish more than once a week or something.
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