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"Polluters on Indigenous territories must respect
Indigenous jurisdiction over their activities and
lands, including providing pollution data and
environmental information."

Read the report here: yellowheadinstitute.org/data-colonia...

"Over and over, Indigenous communities state
the need for access and control to better data
and information about industry disruptions to
land and life, but this call goes unanswered."

Concerningly, these companies also govern the Bluewater Association for Safety, Environment, and Sustainability (BASES), which is responsible for real-time air monitoring and emergency response in Chemical Valley—this is part of why we call it #DataColonialism.

Who is most responsible for these pollution events?

Just FIVE companies are responsible for 71% of pollution notifications: Shell Canada, Imperial Oil, Nova Chemicals, Suncor, Ineos Styrolution. These are the biggest companies in the area 🏭🏭🏭🏭🏭

Spring, a time of renewal and rebirth, when fish are spawning, animals are born, and plants are reawakening and budding, is the most dangerous time in Chemical Valley 🌱⚠️

The most commonly reported pollution event notification type is an airborne event 😷

There have been 645 pollution notifications over the past ten years, which means that community members have received a notification about “unusual” pollution events every 5.65 days for a decade 🤯

Check out the notifications on this interactive map: www.landandrefinery.org/projects/pol...

This means that members of Aamjiwnaang First Nation have been collecting data for 20 years! Generations of community members have been living next to companies in Chemical Valley and are the experts of the effects.

This is #IndigenousEnvironmentalDataJustice

Here is some of what the data reveals:

Collecting pollution notifications, Vanessa & Beze followed in the footsteps of activist & researcher Ada Lockridge, who logged notifications in her calendar from 2003-2013.

Check out Ada's data here: www.landandrefinery.org/projects/ada...

The data in this report was collected by EDJ Lab members Vanessa & Beze Gray between 2013-2023.

www.technoscienceresearchunit.org/environmenta...