Quebec's industry Minister Clément Gignac has asked dismantled the provincial Workplace Safety Board to perform an annual audit to secure international use of asbestos in Quebec, a commitment that quickly dismissed by critics as "utopian and hypocritical.". Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral that has been banned from use in Canada because it is known to deadly diseases such as asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma, a rare cancer of the protective lining of the heart, lungs, causing chest and stomach.
Gignac's appeal came on the heels of growing opposition on the planned reopening of Jeffrey mine in the town of asbestos, South of Quebec, which in 2002 closed. Reopening of the mine would restore 250 jobs and world asbestos increase capacity by 10%. It is also a step the certainly asbestos, not only locally, but abroad as well as increase would.
Prolonged exposure to asbestos, the primary cause of mesothelioma is a silent killer than takes the cancer develop decades and which is generally recognized as soon as it reaches level three or four. Because the cancer to the point of no return, will be symptomatic most patients themselves, aggressive mesothelioma must be subject to treatment, a painful combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy only get about buy six months of life.
Asbestos-related diseases to kill more than 107,000 people every year, so the reopening of the mine and international asbestos sale an ethical dilemma. The international debate has ugly, but Canada seems dead to preserve its asbestos trade, and harsh criticism from the international community set. For example, the Lancet, a British magazine accused Canada 'Hypocrisy', points out that Canada "actively remove asbestos from its buildings is", but it exports asbestos, mainly in Asian countries as a cheap way to reinforce concrete.
This entry was on Friday, December 17, 2010 at 10: 59 pm and is filed under news.