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By: Madison Childs
ALCOA ALUMINUM PLANTS
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HISTORY & 0THER INFO.
• Alcoa Aluminum plant is the world’s 3rd largest producer of aluminum
• Conducts operations in 31 countries
• Alcoa’s products are used worldwide in aircraft, automobiles, commercial transportation, packaging, building and construction, oil & gas, defense, and industrial applications.
• Alcoa is 15th amongst corporations emitting airborne pollutants in the U.S.
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THE PROBLEM
• Northern New York (just across & upriver from Canada): Two Alcoa plants have been producing aluminum since the early 1900’s
They have discharged a stream of toxic pollutants into the water, air, and soil around them
• Downstream, Mohawk children attempt to reclaim their heritage = endangered by the chemicals that surround them
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CONSEQUENCES
• Alcoa used polychlorinated biphenlys (PCBs) -> eventually made their way into the St. Lawrence River, its tributaries & the surrounding area
• PCBs: a group of persistent and highly toxic compounds which, in addition to causing cancer in animals, affects growth, behavior, reproduction, immune response, and neurological development
• The contaminants from the facilities have degraded adult and juvenile fish habitat for species such as the American eel
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RECONNECTING TO THE NATURAL WORLD• Steps to restoring the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe (which is tied closely
to the natural world) :
• A tribal apprenticeship program will seek to restore traditional Mohawk cultural practices that have been lost or impaired
• The program will provide experience in directly harvesting, preparing, preserving and producing traditional Mohawk cultural products
• The tribe has targeted four traditional areas for apprentices to receive hands-on training from experienced masters:
• Water, fishing & use of river
• Horticulture and basket-making
• Medical plants and healing
• Hunting and trapping
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ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION
• Cleanup activities have been started – degrading & capping contaminated sediments and have been attempting to remediate the polluted environment
• St. Lawrence River Environmental Restoration Compensation and Determination Plan: protecting and restoring wetland and upland habitat, enhance stream banks, improve impeded fish and other wildlife passage through the rivers, enhance fish stocks and spawning habitat & restore bird habitat.
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CLEAN AIR ACT/RESOLUTION
• April 9, 2003, Justice Dept. & Environmental Protection Agency announced a major Clean Air Act settlement with Alcoa, Inc.
• Alcoa committed to install pollution controls that will result in major reductions of harmful air pollutants annually and will fund several beneficial environmental projects