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Violence on the Land is Violence on Our Bodies: Building an Indigenous Response to Environmental Violence

Women's Earth Alliance and Native Youth Sexual Health Network

2016

Aamjiwnaang Website

The Aamjiwnaang First Nation (formally known as Chippewas of Sarnia) is a First Nations community of about 2400 Chippewa (Ojibwe) Aboriginal peoples (850 of which live on Reserve).

Surrounded by Chemical Valley and ‘living in a bubble’: the case of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, Ontario

Isaac Luginaaha, Kevin Smith and Ada Lockridge

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management Vol. 53, No. 3, April 2010, 353–370

Declining Sex Ratio in a First Nation Community

Constanze A. Mackenzie, Ada Lockridge, and Margaret Keith

Environmental Health Perspectives • volume 113 | number 10 | October 2005

Indigenous Peoples of North America: Environmental Exposures and Reproductive Justice

Elizabeth Hoover, Katsi Cook, Ron Plain, Kathy Sanchez, Vi Waghiyi, Pamela Miller, Renee Dufault, Caitlin Sislin, and David O. Carpenter

Environmental Health Perspectives • volume 120 | number 12 | December 2012

Aamjiwnaang & Sarnia Against Pipelines (ASAP)

Aamjiwnaang & Sarnia Against Pipelines is a grassroots group led by siblings Vanessa and Beze Gray. ASAP has hosted several Toxic Tours over the past few years to bring awareness to the health and environmental injustice in Aamjiwnaang First Nation.

Return to Chemical Valley 2019

Dr. Elaine MacDonald, June 2019

Ten years after Ecojustice's report on one of Canada's most polluted communities

Exposing Canada's Chemical Valley

Elaine MacDonald, Sarah Rang, October 2007

An Investigation of Cumulative Air Pollution Emissions in Sarnia, Ontario Area

Canada's Toxic Chemical Valley: VICE Documentary

Filmed by Michael Toledano, Hosted by Patrick Mcguire, September 2013

A Toxic Tour of Canada's Chemical Valley

Micheal Toledano, March 2013

Article and photo essay of a Toxic Tour of the Chemical Valley

Canadian oil refineries lag far behind US counterparts on pollution controls

EcoJustice, Elaine McDonald, May 2, 2018

We analyzed benchmarking data recently obtained from Environment and Climate Change Canada (“ECCC”) that shows that Canada dramatically lags behind its American counterparts in controlling air pollution from petroleum refineries. The benchmarking data uses a statistical methodology reviewed by Statistics Canada to compare air pollution emissions from oil refineries in Canada to US oil refineries.

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The Land and Refinery Project shares ongoing research with Aamjiwnaang community members and the general public about the history and operations of the Imperial Oil Refinery in Sarnia. 

This refinery sits on traditional Anishinaabek territory and is one of the oldest refineries in the world.

The project is created by the Environmental Data Justice Lab at the Technoscience Research Unit, an Indigenous-led lab undertaking research about colonialism, pollution, and data at the University of Toronto.

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