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One community's fight to tackle industrial pollution


March 1st 2021
Brefny Raney and her daughter Jessa play in a park near their home in west Trail. The smelter stacks can be seen in the background. Photo by Louis Bockner
For more than 30 years, a small city nestled in the mountains of British Columbia’s West Kootenay region has been working to clean up lead pollution that spewed from the local smelter for almost a century.
Teck Metals has upgraded the smelter, and that led to major improvements, but blood lead levels among local kids are still four times higher than the Canadian average, and internal government documents obtained by ....

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