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The medical journal “The Lancet” branded “hypocritical” to the governments of Canada and Quebec to export asbestos to developing countries that do not have the means to protect its employees or its people from the lethal effects associated with this material . In a global report released first in its online edition, published this week in the magazine cited a number of activists against asbestos and the Canadian Medical Association condemn the governments of Canada and Quebec to export the material associated with deadly diseases countries that are developing and are vulnerable.
These assets and “The Lancet” call on the authorities not to grant Quebec a loan guarantee to a consortium that aims to revive the export of asbestos currently in danger of extinction, for another 25 years.
In this global report, written by Tony Kirby, public relations manager of The Lancet, it is recalled that Canada has long been a major exporter of chrysotile or white asbestos with other major exporters such as Russia, Kazakhstan and Brazil.
But in the last two decades, many high-income countries have implemented bans on chrysotile (in addition to those sanctions blue and brown asbestos), either by law or “de facto”.
These include the United Kingdom, where chrysotile was banned in 1999 and Canada, which has imposed no legal sanction but a de facto use of this material.
That report states that as a result, more and more asbestos from Canada has gone to developing countries where there are few or no prohibitions and where it continues to increase in deadly diseases that are related to exposure to asbestos or asbestos.
These include mesothelioma, a cancer that affects the lungs specifically caused by exposure to this chemical compound whose diagnosis is almost always a death sentence.
In the UK, deaths from malignant diseases as mentioned (pleural cancer or mesothelioma) have increased from 895 in the years 1990 to 2249 cases in 2008, without being given any signal to do anticipate a decline in disease since the effects caused by exposure to asbestos in the 60 and 70 continue to manifest themselves today.
Although the resources of chrysotile in Canada have been declining, a consortium led by Indian financial Baljit Chadha, based in Montreal, now plans to convert the Jeffrey Mine in Quebec, in the open, which was closed recently in an underground mine, the that will cause Canada to produce and export, again, about 10% of asbestos in the world.
So tomorrow is expected to carry out protests in London, Quebec and Asian cities against the Governments of Canada and Quebec to halt the granting of loan guarantee consortium.
According to Laurie Kazan-Allen, coordinator of the International Secretariat for the Prohibition of Asbestos (IBAS), a “new asbestos mine in Quebec would be an abomination.”
For his part, Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet noted that “the links between asbestos and lung cancer, including mesothelioma, have been long established.”
“The governments of Quebec and Canada should not export asbestos to developing countries where regulations are few, if any, to protect workers or the general public of its lethal effects,” he said.
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