By Maya Ekman, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, NWOnewswatch.com NESKANTAGA – Five years after an $8 billion clean water settlement the First Nation with the longest standing drinking water advisory in the country says they haven’t seen a cent. “For Neskantaga, it’s very troubling; things are not moving. Words, it’s all words, and we want action where we can have clean drinking water,” said Gary Quisess, chief of Neskantaga First Nation, now in their 31st year without safe water. “We’ve lost life in these 31 years. I don’t know how many lives we’ve lost over a water treatment plant.” Last week, the federal government put forth the First Nations Clean Water Act along with the “largest funding commitment ever made for First Nations,” to target long-term drinking water advisories. Quisess says…
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