Fighting for the right to a healthy environment. Ada Lockridge and Ron Plain

Description

This episode of The Green Interview features Ron Plain and Ada Lockridge, two members of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, a native community in the heart of Ontario's notorious "Chemical Valley," who have launched a lawsuit to prove that Canadians have constitutional rights to clean air, clean water, and a healthy environment. According to the World Health Organization, the area has the worst air quality in Canada-pumping out more air pollution than the entire provinces of Manitoba or Saskatchewan or New Brunswick. Aided by the environmental law organization Ecojustice, the pair is arguing that their Charter rights to life, liberty and security of the person-and equality-are being violated by the Ontario government's permission for the expansion of these toxic industries.

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90 min

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Date of Publication

[2014], c2013

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Films on Demand

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