Hydro dams and mercury dumping destroyed the Grassy Narrows river ecology.

Evidence

Grassy Narrows was no longer a narrows, it was a vast lake. … Meanwhile, mercury contamination was killing the fish. “We knew there was something wrong that the fish were floating within the whole river system. The marine life was dying, and the fish tasted funny. It tasted like oil or something that had rusted,” says Frobisher. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 520

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on the Churchill dam and James Bay flooding of Innu land as hydro development externalizing harm onto Native communities. — connects to: Mercury poisoning collapsed the Grassy Narrows fishing economy and tripled welfare dependence. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 521; Cheap hydro power from new dams lured the corporations that poisoned the river — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 96; Construction of dams was actually destruction of ecosystems

Broader Connections

• Construction of dams was actually destruction of ecosystems #corroborates (0.82)