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Strict safety standards will apply to only 0.1% of use of Québec’s asbestos overseas |
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Monday, 10 January 2011 |
ASIAN SOLIDARITY DELEGATION TO QUÉBEC
Press Release: December 15, 2010
Strict safety standards will apply to only 0.1% of use of Québec’s
asbestos overseas, Minister Gignac admits to Asian Solidarity Delegation
The Québec government has no intention of ensuring “rigorous safety
protections” are in place for 99.9% of the life of the asbestos that the
Jeffrey mine would export to developing countries, Québec’s minister of
Economic Development, Clément Gignac, has admitted to the Asia-Québec
Solidarity Delegation. The details of the minister’s position are noted
in the attached letter.
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Actions supporting Solidarity Delegation from Asia to Quebec |
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Friday, 10 December 2010 |
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The members of the Asian Network for the Rights of Occupational and Environmental Victims (ANROEV) and other organizations conduct actions to support the Solidarity Delegation from Asia to Quebec to protest the opening of the Jeffrey Asbestos Mine and call for the stop of mining of asbestos and exports of the deadly dust to other countries.
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Indian Asbestos Victims Testimony |
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Thursday, 09 December 2010 |
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We have uploaded videos of Indian Asbestos Victims Testimonies on how asbestos has affected their lives. You can view the videos by visiting the ANROEV Youtube channel
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Quebec, Stop slow motion Bhopals! |
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Friday, 03 December 2010 |
As the survivors of the world’s worst industrial disaster-Bhopal gas tragedy (1984) prepare for the 26th anniversary of the disaster on 3rd December 2010, mourning their dead and fighting for their survivors, the workers and health activists from Asia gear up to fight the Quebec government (Canada) and its powerful asbestos industry from exporting more asbestos deaths to Asia.
The Quebec government is preparing to give a loan guarantee of $58 million to rescue the asbestos industry and allow the opening of the new Jeffrey underground mine. An international consortium of investors, led by Baljit Chadha, a Canadian industrialist of Indian origin, is investing in this misadventure. The opening of the mine would result in the export of 200,000 tonnes of asbestos a year to developing countries (in Asia and Africa) for the next 25 to 50 years.
For decades Quebec has exported deadly white (Chrysotile) asbestos to the developing countries using false industry propaganda and unethical science to assure them that asbestos can be used safely. These propaganda campaigns were financed and disseminated by powerful industry and complicit government. While the world, including the Quebec government and scientific community, recognized the harmful nature of asbestos and took action to protect its own citizens, Canada continued to export deaths to the ‘third’ world.
We, representatives of labour and health groups from India strongly condemn and protest this deliberate attempt by the Quebec government to expose the citizens of poorer countries to a substance that they do not even want in their own country. Bhopal was an example of what goes wrong when corporations and complicit governments rule the world. The continued export of asbestos is a crime against humanity.
Quebec, Stop slow motion Bhopals!
For more information Contact
Mohit Gupta
Coordinator – OEHNI
Occupational and Environmental Health Network of India
Email – oehni (dot) del (at) gmail (dot) com
Ph – 011-29531814
Anup Srivastava
Education Officer – South Asia
Building and Woodworkers International
Email - anup (dot) srivastava (at) bwint (dot) org
Ph - 01141550670
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Online Petition against the opening of the Jeffrey Mines |
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Wednesday, 01 December 2010 |
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On December 9, 2010, members of the Asian Network for the Rights of Occupational and Enivironmental Victims (ANROEV) and the Asia Ban Asbestos Network (A-BAN) will conduct a protest, along with other anti-asbestos activists agains the re-opening of the Jeffrey Asbestos Mines and to press for the Canadian government to halt export of asbestos to other countries, including nation from the Asian region.
We can add our voice to the collective dissent against asbestos by visiting http://www.petitiononline.com/a5b35t0s/petition.html and signing the petition.We are also asking you to share the link to your friends and network.
Stop the re-opening of Jeffrey Asbestos Mine! Stop mining and exporting Canadian asbestos!
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