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“They cut corners every day, every day,” said Justin Gee, vice-president of First Nations Engineering Services Ltd. Gee said he encountered these recurring problems while overseeing the work of a construction firm, Kingdom Construction Limited (KCL), during the building of a water treatment plant 10 years ago in Wasauksing First Nation, along the eastern shore of Georgian Bay, about 250 kilometres north of Toronto. “You have to be on them every step of the way,” said Gee, who was the contract administrator on the project. “You can’t leave them on their own.” Today, this plant is among seven First Nations water and wastewater infrastructure projects in two provinces, funded by the federal government, that have all involved work by KCL, an Ontario-based firm. ....
Posted: Dec 17, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020 A sign pleading for help in Neskantaga First Nation.(Olivia Stefanovich/CBC) Members of a First Nation that has been under a boil-water advisory for longer than any other in Canada are hoping to return home before Christmas to clean running water for the first time in 25 years. Neskantaga, accessible only by air and an ice road in winter, sits about 450 km north of Thunder Bay, Ont. where nearly 300 of its members have been living in a hotel since an oily sheen in the reserve s reservoir on Oct. 19 triggered their evacuation. Now, final tests are taking place to determine whether Neskantaga s water is safe enough for the community to use, weeks after members originally were scheduled to fly back and two years after the reserve s water treatment plant was supposed to start producing clean drinking water. ....