[CPEO-BIF] Old Fort Finishing and Old Fort School, Old Fort, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State responds to Old Fort pollution questions


By Britt Combs
McDowell News (NC)
February 23, 2010

Years of questions and private research into the history of 
environmental pollution in Old Fort have finally gotten a positive 
response from the state of North Carolina.

A report issued this month by the N.C. Department of Health and the U.S. 
Department of Health and Human Services concludes that incidents of 
cancer in Old Fort are not associated with environmental pollution at 
the defunct Old Fort Finishing plat, and that school personnel are not 
at risk.

After the death of his brother, Curtis, to brain cancer in 2004, Oman 
McCourry began to research what he described as an unusual frequency of 
cancer of the brain among people who worked at or lived near Old Fort 
Finishing and nearby Old Fort School.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www2.mcdowellnews.com/content/2010/feb/23/state-responds-old-fort-pollution-questions/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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