Grassy Narrows mercury problems are being made worse: study [Video]

For decades the people of Grassy Narrows First Nation were told the toxic mercury dumped in the river by a paper mill in the 1960s would eventually go away.

As the neurotoxin marched its way up the food chain, poisoning the fish that the people ate, they took cold comfort in the government’s assurances that the mercury threat would diminish over time.