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RSS FeedsWhistleblower alleges province failing to protect First Nations community in `Chemical Valley´ from `dangerous´ air pollutants
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10 october 2019 04:10:12

 
Whistleblower alleges province failing to protect First Nations community in `Chemical Valley´ from `dangerous´ air pollutants
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A government whistleblower claims the province’s environment ministry has for years failed to properly protect the Aamjiwnaang First Nation — whose ancestral land near Sarnia is surrounded by petroleum refineries and chemical plants — from potentially dangerous levels of sulphur dioxide air emissions due to “systemic discrimination” that includes yielding to “secretive” industry lobbying to relax compliance standards.Scott Grant, 56, is a senior combustion and air pollution engineer at the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks. He alleges that top-level ministry managers have withheld technical and scientific information about sulphur dioxide impacts and caved to industry interests while failing to properly consult Aamjiwnaang First Nation representatives — all of which Grant says puts residents at “unreasonable” health and safety risks in an area known as “Chemical Valley.”Grant’s claims are contained in material supporting his Ontario Labour Relations Board grievance application filed in August against environment deputy minister Serge Imbrogno. The 30-year ministry employee claims Imbrogno is responsible for workplace reprisals he experienced after confidentially disclosing discrimination concerns to Imbrogno in January. The ministry rejects both Grant’s allegations of systemic discrimination and his claims of workplace reprisals.The grievance arbitration, submitted under the Public Service of Ontario Act, is scheduled for Thursday.Grant says in his grievance that he previously submitted to senior ministry staff confidential claims of wrongdoing related to Aamjiwnaang First Nation; in 2009 (alleging “reckless” disregard for public safety) and 2014 (he claims two senior ministry managers “exhibited a discriminatory attitude” toward Aamjiwnaang). Grant asserts a “long-term pattern of ostracization” began in 2009, with senior mana ...


 
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