[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL, VOCs: Canadian Forces Base Valcartier, Shannon, Quebec

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

CFB Valcartier's neighbours still distrustful after drinking water tainted

Canadian Press
March 24, 2008

SHANNON, Que. - It seems as if no one in this small town north of Quebec 
City drinks the water - not the mayor, not the hairstylist, not even the 
nurse.

Yet the residents of Shannon, Que., get their water from what many 
consider a reliable source, the Canadian army.

But distrust for the Canadian Forces has run deep in the town of 4,000 
ever since neighbouring CFB Valcartier revealed in 2000 that a toxin 
linked to cancer was seeping into the town's water supply from the base.

"They're like the Mafia," hairstylist Nancy Nicol says in an interview 
in the low-slung bungalow that doubles as her salon. "The army hides 
everything."

...

For the entire article, see
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hTv679uWoKzKDm5dFcgdAU5UYpQQ

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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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