By Sonal Gupta, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Canada’s National Observer A thick smoke from a burning garbage dump used to hang over Lil\u2019wat Nation, putting the community\u2019s health at risk. \u201cI\u2019d go up there to clean up, and people would be lighting the dump on fire,\u201d said Calvin Jameson, a public works superintendent for the community about 150 kilometres north of Vancouver. \u201cThere was everything you could name \u2014 paint, batteries, oil, tires. And when you came up the hill, there\u2019d be a layer of smoke right above the nation.\u201d Smoke drifted into homes, schools and the health centre, forcing families to keep their windows closed as they feared for the health of elders and children. For years, complaints about the dump went unheeded \u2014 until Jameson took matters into… <\/p>\n
By Sonal Gupta, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Canada’s National Observer A thick smoke from a burning garbage dump used to hang over Lil\u2019wat Nation, putting the community\u2019s health at risk. \u201cI\u2019d go up there to clean up, and people would be lighting the dump on fire,\u201d said Calvin Jameson, a public works superintendent for the community about 150 kilometres north of Vancouver. \u201cThere was everything you could name \u2014 paint, batteries, oil, tires. And when you came up the hill, there\u2019d be a layer of smoke right above the nation.\u201d Smoke drifted into homes, schools and the health centre, forcing families to keep their windows closed as they feared for the health of elders and children. For years, complaints about the dump went unheeded \u2014 until Jameson took matters into... <\/p>\n