An award winning environmentalist.

 

  • Receiving an award is an honour. Having an award created in your name is doubly so. Sheila Cole, a long time environment and health activist, received this honour in 2007 when the Nova Scotia Environmental Network (NSEN) presented her with the first Cole award for Excellence in Environment and Health. The award was named in recognition of her dedication to environment and health over several decades. Sheila has been a strong and persistent voice in the environmental movement, urging both politicians and environmentalists to recognize the importance of environmental impacts on human health and vice versa. In presenting the award, Veronica Sherwood, past executive director of NSEN noted, “ Sheila has an environmental record as long as my sleeve. She is absolutely vigilant about what she cares about and believes in: social justice, equity, the environment and, in particular, the relationship between the environment and human health." Sheila was a long standing board member of the Environmental Health Association of Nova Scotia (EHANS).

    Sheila served as EHANS representative to the Nova Scotia Environmental Network and co-chaired the Canadian Environmental Network’s Health Caucus. In February 2007, Sheila Cole and Sandra Madray of Chemical Sensitivity Manitoba, made a joint presentation to the Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources on approaches to chemical regulation under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA).

  • This is the Nova Scotia Environmental Network’s (NSEN) most prestigious award, recognizing years of hard work and dedication to environmental issues and policy initiatives. It was awarded to Cole as a salute to 30 years of activism within the NSEN. After receiving this award, Sheila subsequently became the first environmentalist in the province to be recognized by the Nova Scotia Legislature.

  • The Lifetime achievement award is the Nova Scotia Environment Network’s most prestigious award..

 

“The greatest challenge facing humanity at this time in history is to remember and understand the interrelationship of all things. Every individual has a role to play and collectively our efforts will restore health and balance to the earth and all living things.”