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The Dryden pulp mill, also known as the Reed Mill, is a paper and pulp mill in Dryden, Ontario. Mercury poisoning from mill caused "one of Canada's worst environmental disasters" The first iteration of the mill was initially built by Charles and Grant Gordon in 1909 on the west side of the Wabigoon River From the early twentieth century to the twenty-first century, the forest industry has played a significant role in Dryden's economy.

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  • The Dryden pulp mill, also known as the Reed Mill, is a paper and pulp mill in Dryden, Ontario. Mercury poisoning from mill caused "one of Canada's worst environmental disasters" The first iteration of the mill was initially built by Charles and Grant Gordon in 1909 on the west side of the Wabigoon River From the early twentieth century to the twenty-first century, the forest industry has played a significant role in Dryden's economy. (en)
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  • The Dryden pulp mill, also known as the Reed Mill, is a paper and pulp mill in Dryden, Ontario. Mercury poisoning from mill caused "one of Canada's worst environmental disasters" The first iteration of the mill was initially built by Charles and Grant Gordon in 1909 on the west side of the Wabigoon River From the early twentieth century to the twenty-first century, the forest industry has played a significant role in Dryden's economy. In the 1960s and 1970s, Dryden Chemicals Ltd—a subsidiary of the British multinational—Reed International, dumped mercury into the English-Wabigoon River, upstream of Grassy Narrows First Nation, poisoning the fish which were the staple food of the Grassy Narrows First Nations. Members of the Grassy Narrows and the Whitedog communities, downstream from the pulp-and-paper operations, suffered severe mercury poisoning, when the river systems upon which they depended for sustenance, were contaminated with mercury which never dissolves and is bioaccumulative. In 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Weyerhaeuser Company and Resolute Forest Products—previously known as Abitibi-Consolidated are responsible for cleaning the mercury-contaminated site near Grassy Narrows First Nation. The environmental poisoning continues to cause significant health problems for the First Nations communities downstream. Since the mercury poisoning, the Grassy Narrows community "have lived with the consequences of one of the worst cases of environmental poisoning in Canadian history." The Government of Canada is building a $20 million clinic to treat the First Nations "suffering from mercury poisoning". Since a USD$520 purchose of the mill by Domtar from Weyerhaeuser, in 2007 the mill has producing Northern Bleached Softwood Kraft pulp product. As demand for their products decreased in 2009, hundreds of workers were laid off. (en)
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