TORONTO, ONT-Lynn Rosales is in her 60s now, but since birth she has known \u201cnothing other than the Chemical Valley, nothing other than smokestacks and sounds and smells,\u201d she said in an interview with Canada\u2019s National Observer. When she was young, the industry was not accountable or transparent about what it was \u201cspewing into the water, what it was spewing into the land.\u201d It was all \u201cfree game,\u201d said Rosales, who today works in the environment department at Aamjiwnaang First Nation. On Thursday, at a press conference in Queen\u2019s Park, Aamjiwnaang\u2019s new chief, Janelle Nahmabin, sent a message to the media, the public, and Queen\u2019s Park officials about the resilience and fight of Aamjiwnaang against environmental abuses. \u201cAamjiwnaang will no longer be known as the community that is a victim… <\/p>\n
TORONTO, ONT-Lynn Rosales is in her 60s now, but since birth she has known \u201cnothing other than the Chemical Valley, nothing other than smokestacks and sounds and smells,\u201d she said in an interview with Canada\u2019s National Observer. When she was young, the industry was not accountable or transparent about what it was \u201cspewing into the water, what it was spewing into the land.\u201d It was all \u201cfree game,\u201d said Rosales, who today works in the environment department at Aamjiwnaang First Nation. On Thursday, at a press conference in Queen\u2019s Park, Aamjiwnaang\u2019s new chief, Janelle Nahmabin, sent a message to the media, the public, and Queen\u2019s Park officials about the resilience and fight of Aamjiwnaang against environmental abuses. \u201cAamjiwnaang will no longer be known as the community that is a victim... <\/p>\n