Saturday, April 23, 2011

Asbestos mine and internationally condemned

Quebec again flack taken from international health community and is awaiting the approval of the loan to fund the reopening of the asbestos mine-producing town of asbestos, Jeffrey. Recruitment population fifty-four hundred mine Jeffrey eight million dollars from Quebec and keeping the GEF open for 25 years.

Thirty-six doctors and public health experts representing 21 countries had sent a letter to Canadian Prime Minister Jean Charest and condemn the mine denied loan application. Philip Landrigan, Dean "who" in "Mount Sinai School of medicine in New York, in the message," serious harm to chrysotile asbestos causes to health ... there is no safe exposure level. Go to murder for generations. "Shari, however, continue to publicly support" safe asbestos use. "

Asbestos fibers are known to cause several respiratory conditions, including rare Mesothelioma Cancer. Mesothelioma responsible an estimated 90,000 deaths worldwide each year, the "who" asbestos, carcinogenic, cause Type 1.

Mesothelioma take decades to develop and have a short life after diagnosis. There are mesothelioma treatments available, but no known treatments.

And President Jeffrey Bernard g. mine "Colombia", "notification of minerals and the damage done" but focusing on economic growth will increase from the mine to the community.

Explicitly condemned "the Canadian Cancer Society" asbestos mines also, stimulation of the local population to unshare in annual fundraising relay for life, and remove registered three hundred and fifty of the event.

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