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Groups Urge Feds to Stop Funding Asbestos
"Changing the name from asbestos to chrysotile hasn't resulted in a safer product. Everywhere in the developing world where it is sold there are growing health impacts on some of the poorest people," said John Bennett, Executive Director of Sierra Club Canada.
Changing the Channel
Submitted by John Bennett on Thu, 2010-02-04 14:22
Riding on the bus this morning I was pondering how good Québec Premier Jean Charest looked standing up to Jim Prentice, Minister of the Environment, this week.
On Monday, Mr. Prentice attacked Québec for establishing California standards for car emissions which are tougher than the Xeroxing of U.S. federal fuel economy regulations that Mr. Prentice had his staff do in order to create national mileage regulations for Canada. Prentice talked about Quebec going alone when in fact there are 14 U.S. states and four other provinces in Canada that are all going down the same road.... Read more »
Ottawa funding group that promotes work of climate-change skeptics
MONTREAL - The federal government has been funding an asbestos lobby group that promotes the work of prominent climate-change skeptics.
The revelation comes as Canada's delegation struggles to avoid being cast as the villain at the Copenhagen climate conference, and environmentalists are urging the government to stop financing the group.
On its website, the Chrysotile Institute promotes a chapter that it says debunks the asbestos health-risk hoax from the 2007 book titled Scared to Death - From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares Are Costing Us the Earth.
Ottawa has been frequently knocked by opponents for cutting cash to organizations that believe in fighting climate change.
But Chrysotile Institute president Clement Godbout said Monday that his organization - which has received more than $20 million over two decades - actually has no position about the book's chapter on climate change.... Read more »
Quebec health experts are "a little gang of Talibans," accuses Quebec's asbestos industry
Medical experts working for the Quebec government's National Public Health Institute (INSPQ) are "a little gang of Talibans", charges Bernard Coulombe, president of the Jeffrey asbestos mine.... Read more »
Heed students and Ban Canadian Asbestos, say health, environment and social justice organizations
(OTTAWA) Twenty of Canada’s foremost health, environment and labour organizations are urging Canadian Parliamentarians to heed the call to ban Canadian asbestos being brought to Ottawa by three Grade 10 students from northern British Columbia.... Read more »
