The fish processing plant in Fort Chipweyan, which has recently shut down as their is no market for the contaminated fish.
The fish processing plant in Fort Chipweyan, which has recently shut down as their is no market for the contaminated fish. The town is on the Athabasca river and lake downstream of the tar sands mines. The Alberta tar sands in Canada is the world's largest industrial project and the most environmentally destructive. Many people in Fort Chipewyan have died of cancer.
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