New Delhi/Patna, 3/2/2011: Addressing a press conference at Indian Women’s Press Corps, Bihar Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar said, “We have not given permission to the asbestos factory. Read the rest of this entry »
Bihar Chief Minister calls for national ban on asbestos factories
February 20, 2011
Turkey: Asbestos ban to take effect on Friday
December 30, 2010
Turkey will ban production, use and supply of asbestos as of Friday, a related directorate said on Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
Editorial: Stop promoting asbestos exports
December 13, 2010
When Quebec Health Minister Yves Bolduc was asked what he thought of Industry Minister Clement Gignac’s proposal to have the government’s workplace health and safety board conduct an annual audit on the safe use of Quebec asbestos in countries to which the product is exported, he respectfully declined. For good political reasons, if not good health reasons. Read the rest of this entry »
Victims, activists urge Canada to stop asbestos exports
December 8, 2010
MONTREAL—Jeong-Rim Lee went to high school near a cement factory that used asbestos in its mixtures, in the central South Korean city of Daejeon. Then, a few years later, she took an apartment just a few hundred metres from the same factory. Read the rest of this entry »
Email from Asbestos expert Kathleen Ruff in response to a letter by Serge Boislard of Mouvement Pro-Chrysotile
December 8, 2010
From: Kathleen Ruff
To: Serge Boislard
Sent: August 06, 2009
Subject: Thank you for your letter
Dear Mr Boislard,
Thank you for your letter of July 24. I appreciate your taking the time to communicate your comments. Read the rest of this entry »
Both sides of Quebec’s asbestos battle speak out
December 8, 2010
Both sides of asbestos mining spoke out today issuing press releases. One side claims that health and safety is at stake while the other claims its jobs are at stake. Read the rest of this entry »
An Asian anti-asbestos delegation visits
December 7, 2010
Quebec: A familiar crusade, even if it has come from far away…
ASBESTOS, QC, Dec. 7 /CNW Telbec/ – The Mouvement Pro Chrysotile simply cannot believe the considerable efforts being expended by anti-asbestos activists to prevent the Jeffrey chrysotile mine in Asbestos from opening. Not satisfied with having recently pontificated from the heights of their “medical wisdom” to representatives of the Conférence régionale des élus de l’Estrie (elected officials), without ever making the essential distinction between fibres (chrysotile vs. amphiboles) or their degree of dangerousness, these ban-chrysotile activists, led by medical militants and the Rideau Institute, are continuing their media show, this time with an Asian delegation. Read the rest of this entry »
Exporting death: Another popular Harper foreign policy
October 15, 2010
What do you call a country that deliberately sells products abroad that will kill many people? You call it Canada. What do you call it when a state action kills a large numbers of defenseless people? You call it a crime against humanity. So how can exporting death by Canadian asbestos not be a crime against humanity and how can a state that does so not be guilty of committing such a crime? Read the rest of this entry »
Asbestos: elimination of asbestos-related diseases
August 23, 2010
Key facts
* About 125 million people in the world are exposed to asbestos at the workplace.
* According to WHO estimates, more than 107 000 people die each year from asbestos-related lung cancer, mesothelioma and asbestosis resulting from occupational exposure. Read the rest of this entry »
Good Practice Note: Asbestos: Occupational and Community Health Issues
March 23, 2010
