[CPEO-MEF] Agent Orange at Gagetown base, New Brunswick, Canada

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Accusations hurled at Agent Orange briefing

Canadian Press
Toronto Globe and Mail (Ontario)
June 23, 2005 

CFB Gagetown - Federal officials trying to calm fears about the use of
defoliants at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown were confronted by anger and
impatience from people who believe they were harmed by the chemicals.

Officials with the Defence Department and Veterans' Affairs repeated
their assertion that the testing of Agent Orange and other defoliants at
the New Brunswick base in 1966 and 67 was small scale, carefully
controlled and unlikely to cause harm to civilians living outside the base.

The officials also told a public meeting at CFB Gagetown, attended by at
least 200 people, that the health effects of exposure to the powerful
defoliants remain unclear.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050623.wagent0623/BNStory/National/

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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