{"id":343,"date":"2015-09-07T16:21:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T16:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/?p=343"},"modified":"2016-02-09T16:26:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T16:26:07","slug":"english-toxic-tour-2015-in-chemical-valley-aamjiwnaang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/en\/2015\/09\/07\/english-toxic-tour-2015-in-chemical-valley-aamjiwnaang\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxic Tour 2015 in Chemical Valley, Aamjiwnaang"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo from National Observer’s article<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Via National Observer<\/a> :<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hundreds of climate activists marched in a \u2018Toxic Tour\u2019 through a bleak industrial landscape on the edge of Ontario that is a frontline in Canada\u2019s climate wars.<\/p>\n

They were gathered to support the tiny Aamjiwnaang First Nation, whose traditional territory lies near an area known as “Chemical Valley” — a 15 square-mile area in Sarnia, where over 40 per cent of Canada’s chemical industry is based. Nearly 60 oil refineries and factories are crammed into an industrial strip overlooking the St. Clair River.<\/p>\n

Storage tanks and oil terminals just a stone\u2019s throw from Aamjiwnaang lands, and the skyline dominated by familiar company logos: Enbridge, TransAlta, Cabot, Suncor Energy Inc., Imperial Oil, among others.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not allowed to touch the water in our community because of how badly they (the chemicals) have impacted us,\u201d said Aamjiwnaang activist Lindsay Gray, who helped organize the Sept. 5 protest. (… read more here<\/a>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via National Observer : Hundreds of climate activists marched in a \u2018Toxic Tour\u2019 through a bleak industrial landscape on the edge of Ontario that is a frontline in Canada\u2019s climate wars. They were gathered to support the tiny Aamjiwnaang First Nation, whose traditional territory lies near an area known as “Chemical Valley” — a 15 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/mob.ligne9.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}