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The Sydney Tar Ponds
- Deficiencies and Questions in Relation to the Sydney Tar Ponds Agency’s Environmental Impact Statement as Produced by Amec Consulting
"Sierra Club of Canada believes that there are two purposes to the excess padding of an EIS: 1) to intimidate the local and concerned public from reading the forbidding pile of tomes; and 2) to create the impression the document is complete and that real and useful information on the
environmental and health risks must have been included."
- Lead, Arsenic and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in soil and house dust in Sydney Nova Scotia.
Timothy W. Lambert PhD. MSc., Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary and Stephanie Lane. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, April 2003
Media Release
Executive Summary
Full Study
Newspaper editorial by Elizabeth May
- Problems with Remediation Options of the Sydney Tar Ponds - March 2003
- Incidence of Cancer in Sydney and Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia 1979-1997
Guernsey et al., Extract from the Canadian Journal of Public Health (pdf, 4.3 MB)
- Congenital Anomalies and Other Birth Outcomes Among Infants Born to Women Living Near a Hazardous Waste Site in Sydney, Nova Scotia
Dodds et al., Extract from the Canadian Journal of Public Health (pdf, 1.3 MB)
- Sydney Tar Ponds: Some Problems in Quantifying Toxic Waste (pdf document - 160K)
- Testing and Risk Assessment Backgrounder - October 2001
- Sydney Tar Ponds – Soil Data Release Form (for Sydney residents)
- Recent news reports about the Sydney Tar Ponds
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