[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, GLOBAL: Valcartier (Quebec) Army Base court rulingt

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

No proof tainted Shannon well caused cancer, judge rules


BY KEVIN DOUGHERTY
Montreal Gazette (Que.)
June 22, 2012

Justice Bernard Godbout has ruled in a class-action suit that the  
townspeople of Shannon, north of Quebec City, did not prove their  
contention that the presence in their drinking water of TCE, a  
solvent used on the nearby Valcartier army base to clean artillery  
and ammunition and a known carcinogen, was responsible for abnormally- 
high cancer rates in the town.

But Godbout did rule that contamination of well water in Shannon by  
trichloroethylene was an inconvenience to residents, ordering the  
government to pay compensation of $15,000 to about 300 affected  
residents who were among the 2,700 present and former residents  
lending their name to the class-action suit.

That would mean damages of $4.5 million, far short of the $200  
million to $300 million in damages lawyer Charles Veilleux, who  
resigned from his law firm to lead the court battle, hinted the class- 
action could yield.
...

For the entire article, see
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/proof+tainted+Shannon+well 
+caused+cancer+judge+rules/6826735/story.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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