Fuel Leak, E-Coli: MCK Friday on K1037

On Tetawathartha, the party line talk show on K1037 it was MCK Friday with host Herb Rice. In-house with a ton of announcement and updates were Cody Diabo and Ryan Montour. The clean-up of the fuel leak remains front and center for Diabo:

“Kahnawà:ke’s position is that it’s coming from Chateauguay and if the province wants to take the narrative that it’s not, well then work with us and show us then or prove that there’s another source. Until then, we go off of the 1 spill and the chemical make-up, it’s all the same fuel. So, unless they’re suggesting at the same time, there was another spill with the same type of fuel, you know, for me that’s too much of a coincidence or it’s just too easy to say, well it’s not the same, it’s different.”

Montour with a breaking announcement with another contamination in the community:

“It’s come to our attention, we are issuing another public health warning to another site that came to our attention. We do have raw sewage that has been identified, tested. The area we are asking Kahnawà:ke to stay away from is from the old CSX tracks, and it lines up with the Quarry. KEPO investigators did go out there to test it and it is raw sewage, so: e-coli, high levels of e-coli bacteria was found in the wetland part. There will be a public service announcement with a map identifying the area. We’re asking all Kahnawakeronon to stay away from the area while the next steps are taking place.”

In terms of Public Safety, they too have been very active, with investment coming from the Quebec and Canadian Governments, Montour gave praise and appreciation to the negotiations for Chief Peacekeeper Dwayne Zacharie:

“We just signed an agreement, $1.6 million dollars specifically for equipment allocated, a one-time deal for  equipment for the Peacekeepers to use. Some part of that equipment is for marked police cars, we’re moving away from the ‘ghost cars’ as people call them, to show more of a presence and obviously a deterrence for the police cars. 2 trucks, lots of personal protective equipment for the officers, up-to-date bulletproof vests, finger print kits, also ATV’s, snowmobiles: there’s a whole slew of ‘equipment specific.’ We can’t use that money for officers. It’s much needed, it just gives them the strength of the local law enforcement to use these funds, to upgrade their equipment. I think that was great news for the community and again, hats off to the Chief for doing his job.”