{"id":2353,"date":"2017-04-12T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T15:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2017-04-12T11:18:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T15:18:55","slug":"ndp-pushes-for-action-on-thunder-bays-north-harbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/12\/ndp-pushes-for-action-on-thunder-bays-north-harbour\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP pushes for action on Thunder Bay\u2019s North Harbour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Apr 12, 2017 @ 11:17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NDP Northern Development and Mines Critic Michael Mantha says the Wynne government has failed to live up to earlier promises to release an action plan for addressing mercury contamination in Thunder Bay\u2019s North Harbour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the water in Thunder Bay\u2019s North Harbour, there is massive mercury contamination that is the result of decades of discharge from a paper mill that closed a long time ago,\u201d explained Mantha this morning during question period. \u201cImagine, nearly 400,000 cubic metres of soggy paper towels full of mercury covering over 50 football fields worth of lakebed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The International Joint Commission (IJC), an international organization created by the Boundary Waters Treaty, identified Thunder Bay\u2019s North Harbour as an Area of Concern over three decades ago. In 2014, the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, along with federal partners, presented a report outlining options to clean up North Harbour, with the promise of an action plan to come.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree years ago, we were promised an action plan. Three years later, we\u2019re still waiting,\u201d said Mantha, the MPP for Algoma-Manitoulin. \u201cHow much longer must the people of Thunder Bay wait for their government to take action?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 12, 2017 @ 11:17 NDP Northern Development and Mines Critic Michael Mantha says the Wynne government has failed to live up to earlier promises to release an action plan for addressing mercury contamination in Thunder Bay\u2019s North Harbour. &nbsp; \u201cUnder the water in Thunder Bay\u2019s North Harbour, there is massive mercury contamination that is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,36],"tags":[314],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-northern-ontario","category-news","tag-thunder-bays-north-harbour"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 04:25:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2354,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/2354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}