Toxics

As a society we have seen cancer rates in Canada increase by 1% each and every year. Increasing awareness of high-risk products to protect Canadians from unnecessary health risks is paramount to Sierra Club Canada’s Health and Environment program area.

The immediate needs of those living in toxic sites such as the Sydney Tar ponds, fall under the Toxics and Human Health program. Sierra Club Canada has demonstrated a continued commitment to the problem of toxic sites in Canada by encouraging the federal government to create a Clean Canada Fund to clean up toxic areas.

The Toxics and Human Health program is committed to supporting, assisting and protecting the citizens of contaminated communities like those in Sydney, NS. A study on household dust, funded by Sierra Club Canada, in homes surrounding Canada's worst hazardous waste sight, the Sydney tar ponds, was published in Environmental Health Perspectives. It concluded that lead, arsenic, and PAH...
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New York's Little Revolution - H2O protection & fracking
31 Jan, 2012   |   From YesMagazine.org How the state’s fight for clean water is reshaping its political landscape. by Ellen Cantarow Document Actions Residue at a Marcellus Shale drilling site. Photo courtesy of Penn State This is a story about water, the land surrounding it, and the lives it sustains. Clean water should be a right: there is no life without...
Another Coal Ash Spill - This Time in Lake Michigan
9 Nov, 2011   |   From Sierra Club Compass - newsletter of the Beyond Coal Campaign How many more coal ash spills need to happen before Americans are protected by coal ash safeguards? The latest happened Monday in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, at the We Energies Oak Creek Power Plant. Thankfully there were no injuries when "(a) large section of bluff collapsed Monday next to the We Energies Oak ...
Halloween makeup: safe or toxic?
31 Oct, 2011   |   Some parents may think the ghost-white makeup they slather on their kids’ faces this Halloween night is safe because of the “non-toxic” label on the package. Think again, says John Bennett. Bennett, executive director of Sierra Club Canada, says many makeup products that claim to be non-toxic contain heavy metals such as lead. That shocking revelation is highlighted in a...
Environmental Groups Urge Rejection of Revised Fish Lake Mine Proposal
19 Oct, 2011   |   VICTORIA and VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Taseko’s revised proposal for a Fish Lake gold and copper mine would be even more of “an environmental disaster” than the company’s original proposal and must be turned down for federal public review, 11 environmental groups said today. The Canadian Environment Assessment Agency (CEAA) is scheduled to decide by November 7 whether to accept...
Environmental network forced to close doors afer 34 years
15 Oct, 2011   |   A 34-year-old national environmental network that has served as a link between people and the federal government shut its doors Friday afternoon after Environment Canada cut its funding. The Canadian Environmental Network was told Thursday that its funding from the federal government won't be renewed. "It was a real kick in the pants," said Dan Casselman, the group's...
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