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SHELBURNE, NS — Shelburne residents concerned with the ongoing legacy of the Shelburne town dump had the opportunity to tell their stories at a roundtable on environmental racism held at the Osprey Arts Centre in Shelburne.
Shelburne resident Lucky Nickerson chats with federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault following a roundtable on environmental racism on March 14 at the Osprey Arts Centre in Shelburne. Kathy Johnson photo New case study launched in Shelburne will identify factors for high cancer rates in African N.S. community
The bill is “a beginning,” said Louise Delisle, founder of the Shelburne-based South End Environmental Injustice Society , adding once the bill comes into effect, “we will know exactly what our next steps will be.” “Our parents would take us all down to the sawmill. Our fathers and grandfathers worked there," she said.
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