Chemical Valley refers to the concentration of forty percent of Canada’s petrochemical industry in Sarnia/Aamjiwnaang (see Xiang, and EDAction & Clear, SDUK01). The site of over sixty refineries and chemical plants, Chemical Valley has been the subject of serious public health concerns, produced by cumulative effects of industrial pollutants which intermingle in the atmosphere, water, and soil. A site as well of significant community resistance the to the oil industry, Chemical Valley has also come to symbolize the failures of government and corporate environmental regulation to adequately safeguard public health.