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The companies are spraying chemicals to control the trees. They tell us we can't pick blueberries for five years wherever they spray. Sometimes they don't even tell us where they are spraying the chemicals. Once they clear cut the trees and replant, they try to stop other trees from interfering with their replanting. Most of our animals and the birds eat the berries. The humans eat the animals and ingest the poisons. Even the fish are contaminated from the runoff. We all become toxic. I have found carcasses of moose and of other animals dead where they have been spraying, including young calves. The companies tell us the chemicals don't bother the animals, but we know different. It really bothers me when they lie. Our rivers are also getting damaged from the chemicals. The Kapuskasing River was especially bad until things started to get better, but does the poison really go away? It was so bad at one time you could not drink the water. Mercury was floating on the surface. It had to be something bad when they told us you could only eat one fish per week. The lumber mills were dumping until the government said no more waste in the rivers. These things that happened in the past have really affected our way of life, especially the people living by the rivers, James Bay or Kapuskasing, where chemicals were being dumped. I am sure this type of damage had been done all across Indian country. It is time North America stopped the use and productions of toxic chemicals.

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