[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs, GLOBAL: Lawsuit at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier (QUE)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cancer report challenged in $1.3B Quebec lawsuit


BY KEVIN DOUGHERTY
MONTREAL GAZETTE (QUE)
AUGUST 2, 2010


QUEBEC - In a blow to residents of a small Quebec community, provincial 
public health officials are disputing a study linking high cancer rates 
in the town to a toxic substance once used at the nearby Canadian Forces 
Base Valcartier.

In 2007, residents of Shannon, Que., population about 4,000, won the 
right to seek damages, estimated as high as $1.3 billion, in a 
class-action suit against General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems 
Canada Inc. and the Department of National Defence.

But a review by the Institut national de sants publique du Quebec of a 
2009 study linking higher rates of cancer in Shannon, north of Quebec 
City, to trichloroethylene (TCE) in its drinking water says the evidence 
does not support that conclusion.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Cancer+report+challenged+Quebec+lawsuit/3351521/story.html

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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